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History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.
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Group Men Vices
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple
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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Conquer Historic Victory World
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
To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
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Effort Order Social
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice.
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Drama Dream Moving
It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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Errors Opponents Wise
I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians are in a common predicament. That would be religious in the sense, “Judge not lest you be judged.”
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Judging Religious Thinking
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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Believe Exercise Passion
All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
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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Analysis Simple World
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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Accomplishment Lifetime Success
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
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May Realizing Tragedy
You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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Answers Giving Nuclear

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