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Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

«The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.»
«The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | About: Politics | Keywords: directing, rationally
«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.»
«Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.»
«There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.»
«A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.»
«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.»
«If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | About: God
«The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.»
«There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.»

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