I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
Reinhold NiebuhrMy personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."
Reinhold NiebuhrNationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
Reinhold NiebuhrThe individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.
Reinhold NiebuhrThe intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.
Reinhold Niebuhr