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In a number of his writings, Reinhold Niebuhr associated despair with our failed attempts to procure security for ourselves, optimistically pretending that we are not subject to the vicissitudes of creatureliness.
“It is something like what happens when we are invited to lunch by a family. We do not just sit at their table and take some food but we are embraced by that family, we have a share in the joy, the love, the warmth of the relations between husband, wife and children.”
― Say it to God: In Search of Prayer: The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2018
― Say it to God: In Search of Prayer: The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2018
“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
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