In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, “If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you’d be a true Christian”.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRA genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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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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Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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All known existence points beyond itself.
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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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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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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
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You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
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A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
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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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I know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don’t think that that’s what’s primarily the matter with them. What’s primarily the matter with them is that they worship a false god.
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