Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage…

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context…

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world…

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to…

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no…

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other…

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is…

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can…

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of…

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed…

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love…

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come…

Forgiveness is the final form of love…

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery…

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else…