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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracy
Man
Justice
Injustice
Possible
Makes
Capacity
Inclination
Necessary
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer
Thankful
Human Being
Sometimes
Light
Owes
Thanks
Flame
Rekindled
Our
Those
Out
Another
Blown
Goes
Human
Being
Us
Who
Each
Deepest
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Love
Truth
God
Satan
Envy
Hatred
Out
Judges
Them
Created
Things
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
Man
Peace
Compassion
Circle
Will
Living
Find
He
Until
Himself
His
Include
Things
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Thomas Aquinas
Man
Three
Believe
Ought
He
Know
Salvation
Things
Necessary
Desire
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin
Truth
God
Truth Is
Dog
Coward
Master
Saw
Would
Would-Be
Silent
Remain
Attacked
His
Bark
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Thomas Aquinas
Wise
Evil
Every
About
Morally
Indifferent
Obligatory
He
Wrong
Judgement
Always
His
Sins
Against
Themselves
Who
Acts
Conscience
Right
Things
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Reinhold Niebuhr
God
Value
Our
Claim
Religious
Tendency
Ally
Partisan
Source
Ends
Fanaticism
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
William Barclay
Love
Christ
Responsibility
Face
Sacrifice
Unless
Easter
Cross
Take
Involves
Always
His
Up
Task
Love Always
Really
Prepared
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Oswald Chambers
Happiness
Man
End
Chief
Holiness
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
Example
Others
Only
Main
Main Thing
The Only Thing
Influencing
Thing
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
World
Society
Kind
Moral
Test
Leaves
Ultimate
Children
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
John Calvin
God
Man
Men
Own
Other
Back
Our
Entering
Neither
Unbelief
Only
Open
Excluded
Unto
Calling
Salvation
Any
Which
Us
Thing
Gate
Set
Save
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas
Better
Shine
Others
Deliver
Merely
Contemplate
Contemplated
Than
Truths
Illuminate
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer
Wise
Light
Pessimist
Everywhere
Only
Sees
Colorblind
Wise Person
Red
Truly
Optimist
Green
Person
Green Light
While
Who
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers
God
Faith
Time
Character
You
Confidence
Ways
Deliberate
Understand
May
Whose
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
You
Happy
Will
Those
Destiny
One Thing
Only
Know
Sought
How
Really
Your
Who
Found
Serve
Among
Thing
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Hope
Future
Man
Enemy
Others
Claim
Abandon
High
Vitality
Inspiration
Head
Takes
Himself
Enables
His
Source
Optimism
Account
Essence
Where
Hold
Present
Resigned
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas
Knowledge
Wonder
Desire
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Strength
Man
Strong
Decision
Strong Man
Weak
Characteristic
About
Excellence
He
Between
Make
Forced
Alternatives
Fore
Always
Issues
Decide
Them
Themselves
Momentous
Chosen
Bring
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Reinhold Niebuhr
War
Result
Tyranny
Consequences
Worse
Civilization
Imperfect
However
Historic
Than
May
Situations
Refusal
Which
Against
Aggression
Inheritance
Even
Even Worse
Defend
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas Aquinas
Patience
Mark
Else
Someone
Oneself
Bear
Imperfection
Perfection
Sin
Wrongs
Done
Even
Actual
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
Albert Schweitzer
Beautiful
You
World
Nothing
Tree
Trembling
Say
Something
Shape
Never
Leaf
Make
Always
Wonder
Anymore
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Albert Schweitzer
Loneliness
Together
Dying
Much
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
John Calvin
Satan
Remember
Miracles
Too
Must
His
I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.
Kevin DeYoung
Myself
Good
People
Simple
Try
Mind
Power
Looking
Impress
Increase
Too
Added
Our
Please
Those
Prestige
Ourselves
Responsibilities
About
More
Look
Looking Good
Make
Am
Prove
Doing
Doing Good
Motivations
Question
Than
Get
Trying
Acquire
Many
Plate
Keep
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