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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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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There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Biography

Type: Theologian
Nationality: American
Born: June 21, 1892
Died: June 1, 1971

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