Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

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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• If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Mom
  • Talent

• God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Experience
  • Faith

• It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Amazing
  • Start

• I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Religious
  • Causes
  • Intolerance

• If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Up
  • God
  • Greatest

• God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

  

  Xenophanes
  • God
  • Men
  • Thought

• Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Religious
  • Should
  • Liberty

• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Earth
  • Suffering

• Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Remember
  • History

• The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • God
  • Church

• When Israel, of the Lord belov'd,Out of the land of bondage came,Her fathers' God before her mov'd,An awful guide in smoke and flame.

  

  Walter Scott
  • God

• Oh, god, where's the fuckin' bottle, you fuckin' whore?! DID HE FUCK YOU WITH THIS TOO?! Yes- OH, SHUT UP!!! HE DID EVERYTHING TO YOU, OH, GOD!!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
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  • God

• At last the god cometh! The air runs over with splendor; The fire leaps high on the altar; Melodious thunders shake the ground. Hark to the Delphic responses! Hark! it is the god!

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • God
  • High
  • Air

• Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims.

  

  Yann Martel
  • God

• Objections to religious mysticism lose their force if they can equally be turned against natural mysticism.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Religious

• I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Men
  • Truth

• Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.

  

  Charles Studd
  • God
  • Water
  • Opinion

• Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Religious

• Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • Time

• I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

  

  Laura Haddock
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  • Important
  • Day

• 'There's always on women's magazines that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?''

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • American
  • Past
  • Present

• The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
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