“If this is indeed the alternative, we are in a tragic situation, compelled to choose between social righteousness and communion with God.”
Source: Christianizing the Social Order (1912), p. 103
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“If I must choose between righteousness and peace I choose righteousness.”
America and the World War (1915)
1910s

"The Holy Dimension", p. 331
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Context: Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.

“I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously.”
TV appearances
Context: Eddie Izzard: What if someone comes to you in the middle of the Second World War and says, "Do you have any Jewish people in your house?" and you do have them. That would be a lie. That would be disrespectful to Hitler.
Christine O'Donnell: I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously. I believe that!
Bill Maher: God is not there. Hitler's there and you're there.
Christine O'Donnell: You never have to practice deception. God always provides a way out.
Source: Social behavior: Its Elementary Forms, 1961, p. 43 (in 1974 edition)
Source: Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929), p. 31

Source: False Necessityː Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy (1987), p. 97

Eric Maskin, " Nash equilibrium and welfare optimality http://emlab.whu.edu.cn/syzx/upfiles/20071108083852736.pdf." The Review of Economic Studies 66.1 (1999): 23-38.