Quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
- 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
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
- Reinhold Niebuhr