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

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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Accomplished Accomplishment Love
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
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Change Prayer Wisdom
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
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May Realizing Tragedy
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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Achievement Moving Wisdom
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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Feels Religious
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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Done Evil Good 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
It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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Errors Opponents Wise
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Grace Men Serenity
All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
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
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
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
We judge the Russians because they’re living under despotism and we don’t like it, but we’ve gotten into a fix now where we’re living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament.
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Common Judging Predicaments

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