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Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
«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.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| About:
Change,
Courage,
Faith,
God,
Life,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
accept, change, courage, difference, God knows how, grant, serenity, take for granted, wisdom
«Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| Keywords:
accomplished, complete, completed, context, Hope and Faith, however, immediate, In Context, lifetime, saved, therefore, virtuous
«God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that can be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other»
«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.»
«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»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| About:
Civilization,
History,
Tyranny,
War
| Keywords:
aggression, historic, imperfect, inheritance, refusal, situations
«The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| Keywords:
ally, fanaticism, partisan, partisans, religious fanaticism, tendency
«The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maintaining the seemingly absurd position that man sins inevitably and by a fateful necessity but that he is nevertheless to be held responsible for actions which are prompted by an ineluctable [inescapable] fate.»
«Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| Keywords:
collective