Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRI know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don’t think that that’s what’s primarily the matter with them. What’s primarily the matter with them is that they worship a false god.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
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To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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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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I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.
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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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A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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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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This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.
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It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.
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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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