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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Reinhold Niebuhr

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Courage Steel Survival
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Justice Politics World
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
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Desire Historical Men
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
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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Evil Justice Men
To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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Feels Religious
The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
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Judgment Prophet
All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it’s a rather vapid form of religion.
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Materialism Thinking Vapid
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
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Facts Laughter Prayer
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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God Moral Revealed
We judge the Russians because they’re living under despotism and we don’t like it, but we’ve gotten into a fix now where we’re living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament.
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Common Judging Predicaments
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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Church Congregational Mean Race

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