In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God. This is the true religion. It has a sense of a transcendent majesty and a transcendent meaning so that that puts myself and the foe under the same judgment.
Reinhold NiebuhrNothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Reinhold NiebuhrI think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.
Reinhold NiebuhrReligion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.
Reinhold Niebuhr