“An irrevocable defeat of a socio-historical cause which gives meaning to the life of the individual must create a complete sense of meaninglessness unless the individual is sustained by a religion which interprets such defeats from the aspect of the eternal.”

—  Reinhold Niebuhr

vol. 1, p. 69
The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (1941)

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