38 ordspråk av Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God
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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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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else
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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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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary
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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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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful 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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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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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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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.
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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 final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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