Religion, declares the modern man,...

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Beyond Tragedy: Essays on the Christian Interpretation of History

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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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