The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
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 NiebuhrI might say that the debate between atheists and Christians is rather stale to me, because the Christians say, "You must be a Christian, or you must be a religious man, in order to be good," and the atheists will say, "It's beneath the dignity of a free man to bow his knee to a god, as if he were a sinner," or something like that.
Reinhold Niebuhr