Author: Reinhold Niebuhr

Quotes

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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.

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

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