"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."
― Reinhold Niebuhr
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Age
More From Reinhold Niebuhr
- "There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion."
- "There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war."
- "If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God."
More In Age
- "This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures."― Martin Chemnitz
- "No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."― Jonathan Swift
- "At my age flowers scare me."― George Burns