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Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

«Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | About: Sin | Keywords: achieving, conceiving, incapable
«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»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | About: God | Keywords: distinguish, serenity
«All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | Keywords: intentions
«The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | Keywords: sinful
«Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | About: Beauty, Faith, Goodness, Truth | Keywords: context, immediate
«Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.»
«Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.»
«Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | About: Democracy | Keywords: inclination
«Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | Keywords: saved, virtuous
«Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | Keywords: leaps, reaction

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