Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Sin, Intention, Humans

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.45, Library of America

• Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Perfection, Sin

• The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Self, Essence

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1996). “The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature”, p.17, Westminster John Knox Press

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