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Reinhold Niebuhr

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Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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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.


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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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.


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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Did you know about Reinhold Niebuhr?

Rev. Niebuhr asserted: "Dr. Niebuhr argued this approach was a pious way to refuse to face real problems.

Niebuhr battled with religious liberals over what he called their naïve views of the contradictions of human nature and the optimism of the Social Gospel and battled with the religious conservatives over what he viewed as their naïve view of scripture and their narrow definition of "true religion". Richard Niebuhr. Among his most influential books are Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man the latter of which was written as the result of Niebuhr's delivery of the Gifford Lectures.

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