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All Quotes by author - Reinhold Niebuhr
" All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. "
Consequences
Human
Intentions
" 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. "
Venture
War
Peace
" Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. "
Finding
Democracy
Solutions
" Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity. "
Behavior
Humanity
Back
" 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. "
Life
Justice
Family
" Forgiveness is the final form of love. "
Final
Love
Forgiveness
" 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 wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. "
God
Change
Courage
" 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
Courage
Change
" Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. "
Love
Power
Goodness
" If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. "
Nature
He
Only
" If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. "
Survive
More
Danger
" I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. "
Club
Think
Truth
" 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
Drawing
Faith
" Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. "
Democracy
Man
Injustice
" Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. "
Nothing
Lifetime
Hope
" Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. "
Nothing
Love
Alone
" Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. "
Faith
Beautiful
History
" Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. "
Achieving
Perfection
Own
" Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. "
Reaction
Age
Knows
" The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. "
Life
Achievement
Serenity
" The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. "
Self
Nature
Substitute
" 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. "
Consequences
War
Result
" There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. "
Pure
Nation
Pride
" The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. "
Duty
Sad
World
" The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. "
Partisan
Claim
God
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