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11 Quotes for 'Reinhold Niebuhr' in the Database.
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Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Topic: Christianity
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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 Ultimate confidence in the goodness of life cannot rest upon confidence in the goodness of man. If that is where it rests, it is an optimism which will suffer ultimate disillusionment. Romanticism will be transmuted into cynicism, as it has always been in the world's history. The faith of a Christian is something quite different from this optimism. It is trust in God, in a good God who created a good world, though the world is not now good; in a good God, powerful and good enough finally to destroy the evil that men do and redeem them of their sins. This kind of faith is not optimism. It does not, in fact, arise until optimism breaks down and men cease to trust in themselves that they are righteous.
Topic: Christianity
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
Topic: Danger
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's
inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Topic: Democracy
Source: Children of Light and Children of Darkness (foreward)
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A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in
contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
Topic: Democracy
Source: Children of Light and Children of Darkness (foreward)
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Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as
good as I am.'
Topic: Democracy
Source: Children of Light and Children of Darkness (foreward)
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Topic: Democracy
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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Topic: Family
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The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
Topic: Politics / Government
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And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us courage to change what should be changed; Give us the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
Topic: Serenity
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