Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the “children of light.” Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRGod, 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.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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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.
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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The fanatic is dangerous.
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That’s why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn’t believe this.
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The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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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.
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That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
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The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they’re going to do and guarantees them victory; that’s why they’re fanatic.
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No nation can say, ‘We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate – to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one’ – no nation can do that.
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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