Quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies.

Love is like a river, never ending as it flows, but gets greater with time!

Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it