H. Richard Niebuhr Quotes


Apart from the resurrection of Jesus the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.

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.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

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.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy some general worldview which to men of other views will seem mythological.