“Absolutism, in both religious and political idealism, is a splendid incentive to heroic action, but a dangerous guide in immediate and concrete situations. In religion, it permits absurdities and in politics cruelties, which fail to achieve justifying consequences because the… — 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
