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. ....

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

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

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed....

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

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and....

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can....

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

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy....

Forgiveness is the final form of love.