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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." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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American Theologian    Beauty   

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"Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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Accomplishment    American Theologian   

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"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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Age And Aging    American Theologian   

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"The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men" — Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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American Theologian    Faith   

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"A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural 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." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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American Theologian    Peace   

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"If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God" — Reinhold Niebuhr
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"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." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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American Theologian    Nature   

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"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else" — Reinhold Niebuhr
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"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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Cute Love    Love    Sweet Love   

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"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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"There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it." — Reinhold Niebuhr
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Achievement    American Theologian   

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