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Famous Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
“Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.”
“If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.”
“All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.”
“Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.”
“Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.”
“Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.”
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.”
“Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.”
“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”
“Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.”
“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.”
“If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.”
“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”
“There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.”
“Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.”
“We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.”
“History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.”
“Men have never been individually self-sufficient.”
“Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.”
“What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.”