Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Prophet

Quotes about: Prophet

• The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Doe, Judgment, Prophet

• The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet. There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause. Then religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, America, Giving

  ABC TV Interview with Mike Wallace, www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

• The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Vision, Church

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God. This is the true religion. It has a sense of a transcendent majesty and a transcendent meaning so that that puts myself and the foe under the same judgment.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Israel, House, Majesty

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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