Religion Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

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If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

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The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the…

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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

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

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love…

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The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

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Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the…

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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…

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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes…

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We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion…

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One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment.…

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Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is…

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There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious,…

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That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends…

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“Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer. Laughter must be heard in the outer…

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The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter…

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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…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every…

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“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but…

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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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Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once…

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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

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In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the…

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved…

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I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man…

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Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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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The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest…

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“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true…

— Reinhold Niebuhr