Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThere is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
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Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats – or Americans, whatever.
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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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Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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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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Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.
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Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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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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The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses.
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All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it’s a rather vapid form of religion.
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