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For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

Reinhold Niebuhr

If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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Judgment Religion Wrong
The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
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Judgment Prophet
Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual – this freedom is necessary for the individual.
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Conscience History People Sake Themselves Tyranny
The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they’re going to do and guarantees them victory; that’s why they’re fanatic.
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Communist Guarantees Victory
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Grace Men Serenity
To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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Feels Religious
All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
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
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
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
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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Approximately Complete Leat Mind
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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Country Democracy Liberty People
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
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Law Love Significance

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