“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.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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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.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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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.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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“I 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 Niebuhr
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“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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