Quotes of Reinhold Niebuhr - somelinesforyou

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ 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

“ 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

“ Forgiveness is the final form of love. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ 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

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ 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

“ God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ 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

“ Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 Ultimate confidence in the goodness of life cannot rest upon confidence in the goodness of man. If that is where it rests, it is an optimism which will suffer ultimate disillusionment… ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 Ultimate confidence in the goodness of life cannot rest upon confidence in the goodness of man. If that is where it rests, it is an optimism which will suffer ultimate disillusionment… ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ 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

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ 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

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 Ultimate confidence in the goodness of life cannot rest upon confidence in the goodness of man. If that is where it rests, it is an optimism which will suffer ultimate disillusionment… ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ 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. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr
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