Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

• Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Life, Rights, Justice

• Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Life, Finals, Form

  "The Irony of American History". Book by Reinhold Niebuhr, 1952.

• Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Life, Responsibility, Term

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1974). “Justice and Mercy”

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin