Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Selfish, Mean, America

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear - a science that gives us nuclear weapons. This is the ironic character of human history, and of human existence, which I can only explain, if I say so, in Biblical terms. Now I don't mean by this reason that I will accept every interpretation of Christianity that's derived from the Bible as many people wouldn't accept my interpretation. But that's what it means for me.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Character, Mean, Biblical

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Giving, Serenity, Grace

  "Serenity Prayer". Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, 1951.

• You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Giving, Answers, Nuclear

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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