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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Reinhold Niebuhr

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
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Catholic Country Men Misconception
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Courage Steel Survival
In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, “If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you’d be a true Christian”.
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Bishops Christian Kind
I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn’t give you any immediate answers, it doesn’t.
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Giving Religious Thinking
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
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.
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Audience Eye Style
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the “children of light.” Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.
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Children Liberalism Social Understand
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms
We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.
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Country Democracy Liberty People
That’s why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn’t believe this.
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Answers Believe Problem
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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Believe Exercise Passion
In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel’s side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God.
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Country House Majesty People

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