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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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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God Moral Revealed
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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Feels Religious
No nation can say, ‘We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate – to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one’ – no nation can do that.
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Accepting Alternatives Fate
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
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
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Change Prayer Wisdom
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
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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Admirer Few Friends Talent
If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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Judgment Religion Wrong
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
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
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Cures Pride Religion
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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Children Community Real
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple
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

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