The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRMarxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It’s necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society.
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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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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Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
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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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History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
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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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It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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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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What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind.
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