Reinhold Niebuhr

Reinhold Niebuhr

"I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father."
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"I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
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."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"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
"Forgiveness is the final form of love."
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."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"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
"Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure."
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."
Reinhold Niebuhr
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