The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.
Reinhold NiebuhrThe recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
Reinhold NiebuhrHistory is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
Reinhold NiebuhrLife is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold Niebuhr