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From Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr
- Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness…
- A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as…
- The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the…
- Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing…
- God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the…
- The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction…
- The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from…
- The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence.…
- Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
- Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
- Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or…
- Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint…
- God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the…
- God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that can be changed, and the…
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