Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Charity

Quotes about: Charity

• It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Charity, Significant, Difficult

  Interview with Mike Wallace, ABC TV, www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

• My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them." I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Atheist, Attitude

  "The Mike Wallace Interview". www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

• I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Simple, Giving, Effort

• I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Justice, Judging

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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