The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute… — Quoted

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“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”

Reinhold Niebuhr · Nature

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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

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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.

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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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