Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

• There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Nation, Pride

• 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.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Cynicism, Think, Pretty

• The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

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  Topics in Justice, Politics

  Tags in World, Duty

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tolerable, War, Peace

• The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

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  Topics in Achievement, Life, Wisdom

  Tags in Serenity

• The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

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  Topics in God, Religion

  Tags in Tendency

• If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.

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  Tags in Wound

• Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

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  Topics in Age, Funny

• Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

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  Topics in Achievement

Reinhold Niebuhr (29)

Birth:	21st June, 1892
Death:	1st June, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Editor, Professor, Theologian

About

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an American theologian, public intellectual, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Starting as a leftist minister in the 1920s indebted to theological liberalism, he shifted to Neo-Orthodox theology in the 1930s, explaining how the sin of pride created evil in the world, and created the theo-philosophical perspective known as Christian realism.

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