Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
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The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maintaining the seemingly absurd position that man sins inevitably and by a fateful necessity but that he is nevertheless to be held responsible for actions which are prompted by an ineluctable inescapable fate.Reinhold Niebuhr
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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 justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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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There are evidently limits to the achievements of science and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.
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If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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