A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRAim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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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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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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You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that’s one of the great achievements.
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For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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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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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.
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There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
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We judge the Russians because they’re living under despotism and we don’t like it, but we’ve gotten into a fix now where we’re living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament.
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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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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