The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThe significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRAim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThe separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn’t interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRYou can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThere are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ”the good life,” which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRNothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRI 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 NIEBUHRAll social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRNothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRWe have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRGod 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 NIEBUHRAll human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRWe ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats – or Americans, whatever.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThe more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRHistory may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThe pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
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