Reinhold Niebuhr, American Theologian (1892-1971)
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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.
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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