Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

“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.”

“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.”

“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them prett...”

“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.”

“Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.”

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

“Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.”

“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.”

“O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”

“I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.”

“Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.”

“Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.”

“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.”

“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope. ”

“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”

“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.”

“O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”

“I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.”

“Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.”

“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.”