Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.
Reinhold NiebuhrThis insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.
Reinhold NiebuhrLife is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold NiebuhrNothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuhr