American - Theologian | June 21, 1892 - June 1, 1971
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuhr
LovePowerGoodnessWithoutPure
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
HopeDoingWorthNothingLifetime
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
GoodFaithBeautifulHistoryTrue
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
EvilBehaviorHumanityBack
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
DemocracyProblemsFindingSolutions
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
NatureSelfMasterySubstitute
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
NatureGodFindMoralOnlyHe
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.
PeaceWarSlowVentureVindictive
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
ConsequencesSinIntentionsHuman
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
CourageSurviveMoreAnythingDanger
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.
TruthTogetherThinkClubBring
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
ReligionPrideNationPureCure
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