There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. -
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- Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
- Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
- 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.
- God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
- God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.