Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Judging

Quotes about: Judging

• 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, Men

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• 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 think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians are in a common predicament. That would be religious in the sense, "Judge not lest you be judged."

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Judging, Common, Predicaments

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• 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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