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The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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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Beautiful Complete Good Saved
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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Asure Community Justice Love Prelivege
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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Age Ideas People
That’s much more dangerous than when people don’t believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they’re not dangerous.
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Dangerous Life Meaning More Much
We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats – or Americans, whatever.
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Common Communist Predicaments
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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Answers Giving Nuclear
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
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Law Love Significance
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
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Charity Difficult Significant
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms
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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Fellow Impulse Men Needs
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
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

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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