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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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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Brotherhood Lying Real
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
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that’s one of the great achievements.
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Achievement Democratic Men
…(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self’s capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.
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Self Spirituality Transcendence
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Accomplished Life Lifetime Single
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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Hypocrisy Moments Self
In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, “If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you’d be a true Christian”.
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Bishops Christian Kind
All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ”the good life,” which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.
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Achievement Good Life Philosophy
I 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.
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Belief Confused Thinking
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Cures Pride Religion
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
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
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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God Moral Revealed

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