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“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.”

“Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.”

“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”

The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944)
Source: The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses

“We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.”

Reinhold Niebuhr

The Irony of American History (1952)
Context: We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.

“Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.”

Reinhold Niebuhr