The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. – Reinhold Niebuhr
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. – Reinhold Niebuhr
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love. – Reinhold Niebuhr
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. – Reinhold Niebuhr