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To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.
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Asure Community Justice Love Prelivege
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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Cheese Good Wine
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern
That’s much more dangerous than when people don’t believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they’re not dangerous.
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Dangerous Life Meaning More Much
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that’s one of the great achievements.
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Achievement Democratic Men
The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.
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Comb Marxist Theory
That is the truth about man – that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don’t understand.
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Dignity Men Misery
A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the “ideology” of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.
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Capitalism Dogma Economic Freedom Guarantee
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
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Law Love Significance
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: “By their fruits shall ye know them.”
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Atheist Attitude Christian
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.
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Essence Men Self
The chief source of man’s inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
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Inhumanity Limit Man Measure

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

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