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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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Reinhold Niebuhr
Age: 78 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 21
Died: 1971
Died: June 1
Ethicist
Philosopher
Political Scientist
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University Teacher
Wright City
Missouri
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr
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If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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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.
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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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I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because it's right, it must be victorious. On the other hand, you say, it's right whether it's victorious or not. And this is what I believe about a free society.
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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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Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
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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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I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
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Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
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