Reinhold Niebuhr
Quotations
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“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“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
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“Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“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
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love. – Reinhold Niebuhr
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. – Reinhold Niebuhr
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