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A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

Reinhold Niebuhr

We misjudge anybody who’s different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That’s their chief offense, but there are particular causes.
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Causes Different Type
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
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
[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.
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Group Men Vices
The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there’s a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.
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Age Dishonest Facts Men
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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Historical Persistance Reckoning
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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God Moral Revealed
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
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Desire Historical Men
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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Cheese Good Wine
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
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
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
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Effort Finals Limits
We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.
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Element Justice Powerful

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

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