Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

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

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Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

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

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Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

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Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

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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.

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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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