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The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man - Rei

The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man – Reinhold Niebuhr

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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. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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God
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Change
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blades no easier to make than an oak. – James Russell Lowell

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We can make inspired guesses, but we don – Isaac Asimov

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Creation

Its a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didnt consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. – Samuel Levenson

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Creation

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? – Samuel Johnson

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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. – Noah Webster

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From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I cant say it myself. – Patrick Campbell

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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. – E.F. Schumacher

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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. – Eric Hoffer

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