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A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

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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I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this freedom is creative but it is also destructive. And there's nothing that prevents this from being both creative and destructive.
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Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.
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We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are particular causes.
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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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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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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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For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.
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Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
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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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One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment. And if you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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Certainly, anybody who says, in the eyes of God, is pretentious.
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