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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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Achievement Moving Wisdom
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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Law Love Significance
…(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self’s capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.
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Self Spirituality Transcendence
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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Historical Persistance Reckoning
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
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Clubs Thinking Together
To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
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Effort Order Social
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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Judgment Religion Wrong
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Courage Steel Survival
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.
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Men Profound Social Values
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses.
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Character Mean Real
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.
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Audience Eye Style
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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Asure Community Justice Love Prelivege
A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the “ideology” of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.
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Capitalism Dogma Economic Freedom Guarantee

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