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Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.
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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Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.
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What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men and even to some which are not innocent.
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History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
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The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
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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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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.
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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
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All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Certainly, anybody who says, in the eyes of God, is pretentious.
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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.
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