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
Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance,… — 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
“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
Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is… — 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
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment.… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
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 Image
