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H. R. NIEBUHR'S WAY OF SPEAKING ABOUT GOD

" . . . the power by which all things are . . ." (RS: 44).

", , . . . not the commander who gives laws but the doer of small and of mighty deeds, the creator of sparrows and clother of lilies, the ultimate giver of blindness and of sight, the ruler whose rule is hidden in the manifold activities of plural agencies but is yet in a way visible to those who know how to interpret the signs of the times" (67).

". . . the ultimate person, the ultimate cause, the center ' of universal community . . . " (86).

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" . . . the inscrutable power by which I am. , . . . , the power that threw me into being in this mortal destructible body . . . " (114)

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" . . . [the] unity that lies beyond, yet expresses itself in, all  all the manifold systems of actions upon [the self] . . . the One in all that acts upon me" (122) .

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". . . the last giver of commandments to life . . . the final goal of the human quest after the vision of glory , . . . the last activity to which the self responds. . . . the Determiner of Destiny . . . the final end, the ultimate source, . the last environment to which [the Christian] is related in all his relations. . . the ultimate spirit that moves in the depths of his life and of all creation" (155).

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" . . . [the] One beyond all the many, [the] power present in all powers, the reason present in all reasons, [the] idea inclusive of all ideas, [the] nature behind and through all natures, [the] environment environing all our environments . . ." (175).

". .   . the universal source of the universal reality . . . the transcendent, the all-enveloping. . . . the mysterious shadow of the Power we do not know, but somehow believe . . ." ("The Triad of Faith":12)