Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• 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.

• The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wisdom, Religious, Allies

• The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Moving On, Wisdom, Achievement

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

• 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

• Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the liberal optimists was s snare and a delusion... Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the "children of light." Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wisdom, Children, Light

• Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wisdom, Mistake, Russia

• Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wisdom, Doubt, Orthodoxy

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