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> [“To reach beyond tolerance is to open oneself to getting to know others, to appreciate their role in the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/to-reach-beyond-tolerance-is-to-open-oneself-to-getting-to-know/)

[Gustav Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-niebuhr/)

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## More by Gustav Niebuhr

> [“Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/men-and-women-believed-and-proclaimed-god-was-firmly-on-their-side/)

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> [“The terrorism has been a generation growing. It'll take a generation to knock it out.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/the-terrorism-has-been-a-generation-growing-it-ll-take-a-generation/)

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> [“The criticism that I think is more telling is that the only way you are going to knock out this terrorism eventually is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/the-criticism-that-i-think-is-more-telling-is-that-the-only-way-you/)

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> [“The only alternative to talking is the building up of resentment and anger, which in the time must inevitably become open hostility and conflict.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/the-only-alternative-to-talking-is-the-building-up-of-resentment-and/)

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> [“I will be a better Catholic, not if I can refute every shade of Protestantism, but if I can affirm the truth in it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/i-will-be-a-better-catholic-not-if-i-can-refute-every-shade-of/)

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> [“There can be no understanding where there is mutual rejection.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/there-can-be-no-understanding-where-there-is-mutual-rejection/)

[Gustav Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-niebuhr/)

> [“Absolutism, in both religious and political idealism, is a splendid incentive to heroic action, but a dangerous guide in immediate and concrete situations. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/absolutism-in-both-religious-and-political-idealism-is-a-splendid/)

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> [“...Dialogue is an activity that represents a state of relations going well beyond tolerance...You can coexist with people without ever having to speak meaningfully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/dialogue-is-an-activity-that-represents-a-state-of-relations-going/)

[Gustav Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-niebuhr/)

> [“To reach beyond tolerance is to open oneself to getting to know others, to appreciate their role in the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/to-reach-beyond-tolerance-is-to-open-oneself-to-getting-to-know/)

[Gustav Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-niebuhr/)

> [“If you are mindful, you can eat the bread and the bread represents the whole cosmos...You set the table, you lay the food in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/if-you-are-mindful-you-can-eat-the-bread-and-the-bread-represents-the/)

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> [“Authentic religion teaches one to imagine the other -- to consider another's vulnerability and humanity. The beginning of ethics is this trancendent imagination' (Ingrid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/authentic-religion-teaches-one-to-imagine-the-other-to-consider/)

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> [“The wars around the globe into which religion is woven -- violence that over the past two decades has sent many tens of thousands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-niebuhr/the-wars-around-the-globe-into-which-religion-is-woven-violence-that/)

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