In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, “If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you’d be a true Christian”.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRWe have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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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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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
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Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel’s side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God.
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A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.
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To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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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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You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.
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The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
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