Author: 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.

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

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

- 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

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

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

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

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