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Reinhold Niebuhr

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


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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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.


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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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.


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.


— Reinhold Niebuhr


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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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