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~ Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes ~
« on: August 15, 2015, 04:44:03 PM »
Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes


An American theologian and commentator on public affairs.
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an American theologian and commentator on public affairs. Starting as a leftist minister in the 1920s indebted to theological liberalism, he shifted to the new Neo-Orthodox theology in the 1930s, explaining how the sin of pride created evil in the world. He attacked utopianism as useless for dealing with reality, writing in The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944):

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Forgiveness is the final form of love.
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« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2015, 04:44:48 PM »
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2015, 04:54:04 PM »
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2015, 04:55:02 PM »
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
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« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2015, 04:55:41 PM »
I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2015, 04:56:33 PM »
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.
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« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2015, 04:57:48 PM »
Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.
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Re: ~ Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes ~
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2015, 04:58:49 PM »
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.
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Re: ~ Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes ~
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2015, 04:59:25 PM »
O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed; courage to change what should be changed; and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
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Re: ~ Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes ~
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2015, 04:59:56 PM »
No virtuous act is quite as 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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