Reinhold Niebuhr

“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”

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

“Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.”

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

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