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The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

Reinhold Niebuhr

You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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Answers Giving Nuclear
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 Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they’re going to do and guarantees them victory; that’s why they’re fanatic.
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Communist Guarantees Victory
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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Judgment Prophet
All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
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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Communism Order Risk War
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that’s one of the great achievements.
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Achievement Democratic Men
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.
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Essence Men Self
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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Admirer Few Friends Talent
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
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
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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Cheese Good Wine
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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Accomplished Accomplishment Love
I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians are in a common predicament. That would be religious in the sense, “Judge not lest you be judged.”
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Judging Religious Thinking

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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