Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
Reinhold NiebuhrNationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
Reinhold NiebuhrWhen a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.
Reinhold Niebuhr