
“comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable”
Source: The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses
The Guardian [UK] (28 July 1989)
“comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable”
Source: The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses
“I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.”
Described as his slogan in "Religion : Go Ye and Relax?" in TIME magazine (20 April 1953) http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,822783,00.html; this paraphrases the expression of Finley Peter Dunne, in Observations by Mr. Dooley (1902): Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.
“One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.”
11 September 1941
My Day (1935–1962)
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
Source: Shades of Milk and Honey (2010), Chapter 4 (p. 54)
Ch. 6 http://www.resologist.net/talent06.htm
Wild Talents (1932)
Narrated in Saheeh Muslim, Book 021, Number 4810
Sunni Hadith