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Reinhold Niebuhr [1892-1971] American

Rank: 101
Theologian

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an American theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years.

Courage, God, Wisdom, Change, Faith, Age, Alone, Forgiveness, History, Love, Peace, Politics, Power, Sad, Truth, War

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.	Change, Courage, God, Wisdom	101
Forgiveness is the final form of love.	Forgiveness, Love	102
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.	Change, Courage, God, Wisdom	103
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.		104
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.	Alone	105
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.	God	106
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.	Wisdom	107
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.	War	108
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.	Politics, Sad	109
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.	Faith, History	110
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.	Courage	111
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.	Power	112
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.	Truth	113
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.	Age	114
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.		115
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.		116
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.		117
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.		118
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.		119
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.	Peace	120
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.		121
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.	Faith	122
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.		123
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.		124
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.		125

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