Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without pow

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. – 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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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Faith
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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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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a mans spirit than when we win his heart. – Eric Hoffer

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power

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. – Alice Walker

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power

When every physical and mental resources is focused, ones power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. – Norman Vincent Peale

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Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have. – Christopher Walken

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I think its a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, youll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before. – Cass Sunstein

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The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. – Thomas Aquinas

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We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it. – Christo

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We loved with a love that was more than love. – Edgar Allan Poe

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