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I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

Reinhold Niebuhr

All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem
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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Art Ignorance Wise
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
The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.
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Church Congregational Mean Race
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
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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Historical Persistance Reckoning
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
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.
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Men Profound Social Values
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Courage Steel Survival
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
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
[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.
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Group Men Vices
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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Average Christian Thinking
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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Believe Exercise Passion

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