There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRMarxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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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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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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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual – this freedom is necessary for the individual.
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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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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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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there’s a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.
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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 separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn’t interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.
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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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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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