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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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Reinhold Niebuhr
Age: 78 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 21
Died: 1971
Died: June 1
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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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I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians are in a common predicament. That would be religious in the sense, Judge not lest you be judged.
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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
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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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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
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We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament.
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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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All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point it's a rather vapid form of religion.
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It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.
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There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause.
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It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
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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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Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
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The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.
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