"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion."
― Reinhold Niebuhr
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Religion
More From Reinhold Niebuhr
- "If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God."
- "If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."
- "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
More In Religion
- "Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals."― E. O. Wilson
- "The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion."― Ernest Istook
- "We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."― William Ralph Inge