Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
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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.
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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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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
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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.
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
