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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

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Desire Historical Men
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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Admirer Few Friends Talent
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats – or Americans, whatever.
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Common Communist Predicaments
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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Evil Justice Men
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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Growth Important Real
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
That’s why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn’t believe this.
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Answers Believe Problem
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
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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Catholic Country Men Misconception
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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Accomplishment Lifetime Success
I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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Attitude Father Kind
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
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Accomplished Life Lifetime Single
It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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Errors Opponents Wise
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 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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