Reinhold NiebuhrA collection of 22 posts

Wisdom

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achie...

War

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a ci...

Truth

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come t...

Religion

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Power

Goodness armed with power is corrupted and pure love without power is destroye...

Politics

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

Peace

Democracies are indeed slow to make war but once embarked upon a martial ventur...

Nature

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self m...

Nature

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

Hope

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be s...