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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
All you earnest young men out to save the world ... please, have a laugh.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.
— H. Richard Niebuhr
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
He who calls what has vanished back into being, enjoys a bliss like that of creating
— Barthold Niebuhr
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
— Reinhold Niebuhr