“If you are mindful, you can eat the bread and the bread represents the whole cosmos...You set the table, you lay the food in the presence of God. Mindfulness is the awareness that shines on every act in every moment.” — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The terrorism has been a generation growing. It'll take a generation to knock it out.” — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The criticism that I think is more telling is that the only way you are going to knock out this terrorism eventually is not… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The only alternative to talking is the building up of resentment and anger, which in the time must inevitably become open hostility and conflict.” — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“I will be a better Catholic, not if I can refute every shade of Protestantism, but if I can affirm the truth in it… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Absolutism, in both religious and political idealism, is a splendid incentive to heroic action, but a dangerous guide in immediate and concrete situations. In… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“...Dialogue is an activity that represents a state of relations going well beyond tolerance...You can coexist with people without ever having to speak meaningfully… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“To reach beyond tolerance is to open oneself to getting to know others, to appreciate their role in the world.” — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“If you are mindful, you can eat the bread and the bread represents the whole cosmos...You set the table, you lay the food in… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Authentic religion teaches one to imagine the other -- to consider another's vulnerability and humanity. The beginning of ethics is this trancendent imagination' (Ingrid… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The wars around the globe into which religion is woven -- violence that over the past two decades has sent many tens of thousands… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
