Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity w...
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Show MoreFrantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly...
Show MoreGoodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I ...
Show MoreLife is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance fro...
Show MoreNothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spiri...
Show MoreIf we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history ...
Show MoreReligion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be f...
Show MoreHumour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallo...
Show MoreI wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.
Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follow...
Show MoreIt is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ...
Show MoreMan's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democr...
Show MoreNothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history ...
Show MoreGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I c...
Show MoreHumor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to de...
Show MoreGod, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the ...
Show MoreThe tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious ...
Show MoreI'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious ...
Show MoreUltimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves an...
Show MoreThe mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I ...
Show MoreDemocracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow t...
Show MoreO God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed ...
Show MoreThe sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the...
Show MoreDemocracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow t...
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