Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Reinhold Niebuhr

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.
Reinhold Niebuhr

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr

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Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

Type: Theologian Quotes Category: American Theologian Quotes Date of Birth: June 21, 1892 Date of Death: June 1, 1971 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Reinhold Niebuhr Related Authors: Ernest Holmes E. Stanley Jones Francis Schaeffer Charles Hodge Tryon Edwards Orson Pratt Theodore Parker Huston Smith	1 - 2 The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. Reinhold Niebuhr The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. Reinhold Niebuhr The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. Reinhold Niebuhr 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. Reinhold Niebuhr There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. Reinhold Niebuhr 1 - 2