Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
Reinhold NiebuhrRead
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Interpretation
Forgiveness is an essential expression of love that signifies compassion and understanding.
This quote by Reinhold Niebuhr emphasizes that true love involves the ability to forgive. It suggests that forgiveness is not just a moral act but the highest manifestation of love, indicating that when we forgive, we let go of resentment and choose to embrace the deeper connection we have with others.
In practice
During a wedding speech to highlight the importance of love and forgiveness in a lasting marriage.
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.
God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.
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. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
There,β she said softly. βNow he could be sleeping.
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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