The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.
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The intimate relation between humour and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Humour is conc...
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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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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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Reinhold Niebuhr observes that the sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.
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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 the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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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 wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
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All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.
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Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.
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The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.
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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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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe, as from our own. Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
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