Religion makes good people better and bad people worse. H. Richard Niebuhr More Quotes by H. Richard Niebuhr More Quotes From H. Richard Niebuhr The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there. H. Richard Niebuhr perception christian discovery A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross. H. Richard Niebuhr thought-provoking wrath kingdoms Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder. H. Richard Niebuhr christendom founders The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and self-sacrifice, the shorn and tangled fibers of human aspirations, faith, and hopes, who will transcend the fears and dangers of an adventure of trust. The road to unity is the road of repentance. H. Richard Niebuhr sacrifice heart adventure Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing. H. Richard Niebuhr deny men lying Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way. H. Richard Niebuhr territory goal wise Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub. H. Richard Niebuhr easter church jesus Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological. H. Richard Niebuhr views men philosophy Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys. H. Richard Niebuhr poet journey spiritual It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people. H. Richard Niebuhr progress people past
