3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr 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.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr 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.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
3 December 2020 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.
