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Humor is a prelude to faith and
Laughter is the beginning of prayer.
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Our gadget-filled paradise suspended in a hell of international insecurity.
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Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.
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Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Religion is always a citadel of hope, which is built on the edge of despair.
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All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of man.
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As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.
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Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
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The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
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The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
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To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
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The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
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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.
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The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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Born:
June 21, 1892
Died:
June 1, 1971
(aged 78)
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