Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. -Reinhold Niebuhr Family
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 Courage
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. -Reinhold Niebuhr Hope
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
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. -Reinhold Niebuhr Nature
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. -Reinhold Niebuhr Faith
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. -Reinhold Niebuhr God
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 Truth
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 Wisdom
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 Truth
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. -Reinhold Niebuhr Wisdom
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. -Reinhold Niebuhr Peace
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. -Reinhold Niebuhr War
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. -Reinhold Niebuhr Change
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. -Reinhold Niebuhr Faith
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. -Reinhold Niebuhr Power
