Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Quotes to Explore
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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
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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.
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A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
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It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
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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.
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Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality.
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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.
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And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
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Visca Barcelona, Visca Catalunya and Visca Argentina, motherfuckers!
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When I'm documenting, for example, a story on women in Afghanistan, I will do a huge amount of research and a lot of time on the ground just getting to know the women before I even start shooting.
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It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.
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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
