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All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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Reason Satisfaction Selfish
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Grace Men Serenity
The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
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Conquer Historic Victory World
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.
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Audience Eye Style
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
That’s why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn’t believe this.
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Answers Believe Problem
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms
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
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
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Coercion Cooperation Groups
If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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Judgment Religion Wrong
Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the “children of light.” Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.
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Children Liberalism Social Understand
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
My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: “By their fruits shall ye know them.”
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Atheist Attitude Christian

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