Christian Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

9 Christian quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

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Reinhold Niebuhr’s nine terse reflections on Christian ethics reveal his philosophical depth. Though the collection is short, each line offers a window into his nuanced view of morality, society, and faith.

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My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox…

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Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic…

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I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that…

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In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the…

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You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been…

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I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man…

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Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once…

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I might say that the debate between atheists and Christians is rather stale to me, because the Christians say, "You must be…

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My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox…

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Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the…

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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…

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The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

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All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

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Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

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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…

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...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

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The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

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