Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.Reinhold Niebuhr
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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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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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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The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
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