Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Church

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• The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet. There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause. Then religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, America, Giving

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

• 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. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Change, Wisdom, Prayer

• Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Church, Groups, Doe

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Church, Trying, Groups

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Mean, Race, Church

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Divorce, Thinking, Secular Society

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

• You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been the fate of certain types of Protestantism. They get under the control of a White Citizens Council while the Catholic Church has an authoritarian system, yes, in which the Bishop expresses the conscience of the whole Christian community and they say there are some things that you can't do on this matter.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Fate, Ku Klux Klan

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Sports, Race, Understanding

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Vision, Church

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Giving, Political, Church

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  America, Church, Principles

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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