H. Richard Niebuhr Quotes
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
Quotes to Explore
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
Sam Brownback
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
Ralph Steadman
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West
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I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
K. D. Lang
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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
Adam Hamilton
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.
C. S. Lewis
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We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.
Douglas Jerrold
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After a second pint, I entered a pocket of time in which life seemed good, secure, not threatened by the past or “things to come.” I knew I had been living on a kind of sine curve, a rolling wave of ups and downs, now hopeful now doomed, now asleep now insomniac, now cocksure now deeply uncertain. If such a roller coaster of moods and dispositions had taken its toll on me, I thought, imagine what it must have been like for.
Bradford Morrow
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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