Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Reinhold Niebuhr
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More Quotes By Reinhold Niebuhr
  1. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  2. Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

  3. Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

  4. Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

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

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