"Men must continue to condemn themselves not only for their failure to do what they could, but also for their failure to perform what they could not, for their denial of the absolute good whose categorical demands were laid upon their incapable will."
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H. Richard Niebuhr, The Social Sources of Denominationalism (1929)
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