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18 Ethicist Quotes

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Any Beautiful Complete Context
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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.
Accept Cannot Change Courage
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Duty Establish Justice Politics
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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Achieved Doing Hope Lifetime
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Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Final Forgiveness Form Love
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Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Democracy Finding Problems Solutions
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Anything Anything Else Courage Danger
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Capacity Democracy Inclination Injustice
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Age Another Extreme Knows
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Cure Nation Pride Pure
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Accomplished Alone However Love
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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Adequate Believed Mastery Nature
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If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

Find God He Moral
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Consequences Human Intentions Much
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Armed Corrupted Destroyed Goodness
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Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Back Behavior Collective Evil
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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

About Achieving Capable Conceiving
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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.
Ally Claim Ends Fanaticism
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