To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRYou can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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…(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self’s capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.
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It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
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Adam Smith’s was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation… But the “children of darkness” were able to make good use of his creed.
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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.
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There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
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The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.
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You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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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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Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
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