If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRAll known existence points beyond itself.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind.
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.
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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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My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: “By their fruits shall ye know them.”
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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the “ideology” of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.
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We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.
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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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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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