Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
From Reinhold Niebuhr
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
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.
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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