183 Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

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.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.