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Which Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr
- Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
- Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond…
- Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
- Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
- There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even…
- I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with…
- God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the…
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