We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Love is like a river, never ending as it flows, but gets greater with time! — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ''the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
