Giving Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

10 Giving quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

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Reinhold Niebuhr’s take on giving intertwines moral philosophy with a keen sense of social responsibility. In these ten brief statements, he invites readers to consider the deeper implications of generosity.

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You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

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I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

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God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

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God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

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I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest…

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There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion…

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Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a…

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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be…

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The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious…

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Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance,…

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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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...(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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