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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
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University Teacher
Wright City
Missouri
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
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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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All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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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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It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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