Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

• Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Problems, Finding

• 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

• All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sin, Intention, Human, Consequences

• 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 worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
  Therefore, we are saved by hope.
  Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
  Therefore, we are saved by faith.
  Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
  Therefore, we are saved by love.
  No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
  Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

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  Topics in History, Love

  Tags in Salvation, Hope, Faith, Forgiveness

• Forgiveness is the final form of love.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Form, Final, Forgiveness

• Forgiveness is the final form of love.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Form, Final, Forgiveness

• 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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