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Reinhold Niebuhr's Profile

Brief about Reinhold Niebuhr: By info that we know Reinhold Niebuhr was born at 1970-01-01. And also Reinhold Niebuhr is American Theologian.

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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.

Tags: Change, Courage, God

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Tags: Final, Forgiveness, Love

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.

Tags: Change, Courage, God

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Tags: Democracy, Justice, Makes

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

Tags: God, Religious, Value

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

Tags: Human, Intentions, Seems

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Tags: Battle, Faith, Life

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

Tags: Life, Serenity, Wisdom

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Tags: Evil, Humanity, Individual

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.

Tags: Family, Life, Love

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Tags: Him, Makes, Perfection

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Tags: Faith, Good, History

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

Tags: Age, Another, Knows

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

Tags: Hope, Lifetime, Worth

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Tags: Alone, However, Love

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

Tags: Justice, Politics, Sad

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.

Tags: Pretty, Together, Truth

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.

Tags: Against, May, War

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Tags: Goodness, Love, Power

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Tags: Democracy, Finding, Problems
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