“ The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. Reinhold Niebuhr
“ 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
“ Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope. Reinhold Niebuhr
“ Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. Reinhold Niebuhr
“ Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love. Reinhold Niebuhr
“ The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. Reinhold Niebuhr
“ The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. 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
“ Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply. 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 c… Reinhold Niebuhr
“ Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. Reinhold Niebuhr
“ Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible. 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
“ I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father. Reinhold Niebuhr
