We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThat’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.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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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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I’ve long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I’ve long felt that the average Christian didn’t realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.
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No nation can say, ‘We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate – to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one’ – no nation can do that.
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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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Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
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The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they’re going to do and guarantees them victory; that’s why they’re fanatic.
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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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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All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
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