What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRA genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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All known existence points beyond itself.
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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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Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual – this freedom is necessary for the individual.
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It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
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Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It’s necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society.
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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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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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To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
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All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
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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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All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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[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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