Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Serenity, Grace

  1934 Reflections on the End of Our Era.

• Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Mean, Perfection

  1934 Reflections on the End of an Era.

• 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

• 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.

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