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 quote The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr quote The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr quote There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr quote The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.
Reinhold Niebuhr quote 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 quote 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 quote Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Reinhold Niebuhr quote Biography
Theologian, 1892-1971
