There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
All you earnest young men out to save the world . . . please, have a laugh. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
Humor is a prelude to faith and Laughter is the beginning of prayer. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maintaining the seemingly absurd position that man sins inevitably and by a fateful necessity but that he is nevertheless to be held responsible for actions which are prompted by an ineluctable inescapable fate. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
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