More From Reinhold Niebuhr
- "Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."
- "The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
- "Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."
More In Forgiveness
- "Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack."― Lewis Thomas
- "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."― Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."― Oscar Wilde