I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer. Laughter must be heard in the outer… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious,… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion. — 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
