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All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Reinhold Niebuhr
Age: 78 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 21
Died: 1971
Died: June 1
Ethicist
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Wright City
Missouri
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
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The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
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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.
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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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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Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.
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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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The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.
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