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

Reinhold Niebuhr

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
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Democracy Justice Republic
If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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Judgment Religion Wrong
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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God Moral Revealed
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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Historical Persistance Reckoning
The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.
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Church Congregational Mean Race
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ”the good life,” which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.
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Achievement Good Life Philosophy
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice.
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Drama Dream Moving
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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Common Kind Sense Thinking
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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Conquer Historic Victory World
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
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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Facts Laughter Prayer
That’s much more dangerous than when people don’t believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they’re not dangerous.
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Dangerous Life Meaning More Much
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars

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