The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.
H. Richard NiebuhrA God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
H. Richard NiebuhrMen are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
H. Richard NiebuhrEveryone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.
H. Richard Niebuhr