Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes & Sayings
25 most famous Reinhold Niebuhr quotes and sayings (theologian). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”
“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.”
“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”
“All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.”
“Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.”
“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.”
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