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The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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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Analysis Simple World
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
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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Clubs Thinking Together
All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
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
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
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Justice Life Rights
…(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self’s capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.
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Self Spirituality Transcendence
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
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Art Ignorance Wise
The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn’t interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.
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Country Giving People Religious
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
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 history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
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May Realizing Tragedy

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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