Quotes Reinhold Niebuhr

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than i...

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked u...

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble proble...

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the c...

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of...

Forgiveness is the final form of love....

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot chan...

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that c...

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that c...

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love with...

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and jour...

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have ...

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anythin...

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feed...

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man...

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; t...

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; ...

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete se...

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable...

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extre...

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incon...

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate s...

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful...

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value ...

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the...