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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fullness of life which each man seeks (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is... The source of all religious fanaticism (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
O God and Heavenly Father. Grant to us the serenity of mind to accept that which cannot be changed; the courage to change that which can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed; give me courage to change things which must be changed; and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
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 which every arrow of moral action flies (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
The evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values (Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes)