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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

I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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Attitude Father Kind
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
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 recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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Historical Persistance Reckoning
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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Accomplished Accomplishment Love
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
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Done Evil Good People
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms
We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.
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Race Sports Understanding
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
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Cures Pride Religion
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Justice Politics World
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.
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Country Democracy Liberty People
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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Confusion Political Relative Value

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