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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Age: 78 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 21
Died: 1971
Died: June 1
Ethicist
Philosopher
Political Scientist
Theologian
University Teacher
Wright City
Missouri
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr
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Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.
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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
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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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Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.
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Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.
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