Quotation by

Reinhold Niebuhr

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

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Niebuhr is saying that if our understanding of God comes solely from observing the natural world, then God lacks moral qualities like justice or goodness. This is because nature itself operates without moral judgment, so a God known only through nature would not provide a basis for ethics or right and wrong.

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