The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maintaining the seemingly absurd position that man sins inevitably and by a fateful necessity but that he is nevertheless to be held responsible for actions which are prompted by an ineluctable [inescapable] fate. - Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maintaining the seemingly absurd position that man sins inevitably and by a fateful necessity but that he is nevertheless to be held responsible for actions which are prompted by an ineluctable [inescapable] fate. Reinhold Niebuhr
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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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. - Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

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.

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Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. - Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

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 American Theologian Democracy
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 Quotes

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.

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 American Theologian Club
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

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

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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. - Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

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 Hope
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. - Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

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The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means. - Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.

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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary - Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary

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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 Quotes

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

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