Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

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.

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

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.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.