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Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

Reinhold Niebuhr

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Courage Steel Survival
The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control.
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Real Running Sacrifice
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
…(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
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
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Change Prayer Wisdom
That is the truth about man – that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don’t understand.
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Dignity Men Misery
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
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Facts Laughter Prayer
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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Historical Persistance Reckoning
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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Country Giving People Religious
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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Reason Satisfaction Selfish
All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple
I’ve long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I’ve long felt that the average Christian didn’t realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.
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Average Christian Thinking
It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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Errors Opponents Wise

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