If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.Reinhold Niebuhr
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.
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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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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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