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Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon

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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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, 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. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Change
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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth. – Owen Glendower

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Faith

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. – George McGovern

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Faith

Faith is the quiet cousin of courage. – Judith Hanson Lasater

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Faith

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied. – Charles Hodge

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Faith

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. – Benjamin Franklin

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