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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Justice Politics World
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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God Moral Revealed
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.
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Common Kind Sense Thinking
There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
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Growth Important Real
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
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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Catholic Country Men Misconception
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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Atheist Christian Men
That’s much more dangerous than when people don’t believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they’re not dangerous.
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Dangerous Life Meaning More Much
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: “By their fruits shall ye know them.”
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Atheist Attitude Christian
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
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
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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Conquer Historic Victory World
We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats – or Americans, whatever.
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Common Communist Predicaments

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