All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
Reinhold NiebuhrHistory may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
Reinhold NiebuhrLife is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold NiebuhrReason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
Reinhold NiebuhrGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.
Reinhold Niebuhr