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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

Reinhold Niebuhr

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Grace Men Serenity
I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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Attitude Father Kind
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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Age Ideas People
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
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Beautiful Complete Good Saved
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
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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Growth Important Real
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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Achievement Moving Wisdom
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Cures Pride Religion
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
If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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Judgment Religion Wrong
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
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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Historical Persistance Reckoning
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
We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.
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Race Sports Understanding
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
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Desire Historical Men

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