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Reinhold Niebuhr
A wise architect...
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first....
The whole art...
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
Nothing that is...
Nothing that is worth anything can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by...
Original sin is...
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of...
God, give us...
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed,
courage to change the things which...
Family life is...
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which...
Nothing which is...
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must...
All you earnest...
All you earnest young men out to save the world . . . please, have a laugh.
Democracies are indeed...
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and...
If we survive...
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Man's capacity for...
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy...
History is a...
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously...
I think there...
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of...
The final wisdom...
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above...
Our age knows...
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Life is a...
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and...
There is no...
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Nothing we do,...
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by...
There are evidently...
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between...
The sad duty...
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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