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.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRI think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn’t give you any immediate answers, it doesn’t.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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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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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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The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
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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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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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All known existence points beyond itself.
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Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn’t interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.
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It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
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We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.
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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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