Quotes by : Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows....

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the....

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit....

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to....

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore....

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

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

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore....