Bob Niebuhr quote: "I just got an e-mail from a woman in Red Deer, Alberta reporting that she saw one up there. We have a few members who live where they will see them but so far, no reports. But just because nobody has reported them, doesn't mean they haven't seen them."

I couldn't believe it. One minute I am reading this in the Tribune and the next minute I get a phone...
BOB NIEBUHR

Somebody is going to see (a bluebird) some place and somebody will see one a few days later somewher...
BOB NIEBUHR

The interesting thing is we have fledged 173,000-plus bluebirds in the last 10 years. It took a long...
BOB NIEBUHR

God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed;Give me courage to change things w...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had master...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the junctu...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democr...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance fro...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

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

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spiri...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;
Therefore, we must be saved by hope....
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attrib...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty o...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I c...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow t...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice make...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity w...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is... the source of all religi...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us courage to change what should ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.'
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 Ultimate confidence i...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Change is the essence of life.Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democr...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complac...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maint...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true o...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

You've changed so much. I guess that's what happens. I wish you knew how much you changed me. I wond...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to de...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the thi...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life
BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.
BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR

We must face the recognition that what the early Christians saw in Jesus Christ, and what we must ac...
H. RICHARD NIEBUHR

Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089 The denominations, chu...
H. RICHARD NIEBUHR

The power and attraction Jesus Christ exercises over men never comes from him alone, but from him as...
H. RICHARD NIEBUHR

Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institu...
H. RICHARD NIEBUHR

Feast of Barnabas the Apostle The disorder of secularism is perhaps nowhere more apparent in our ...
H. RICHARD NIEBUHR

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem ...
H. RICHARD NIEBUHR

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
BOB DYLAN

In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our las...
BOB WELLS

And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand ...
BOB SCHIEFFER

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and...
BOB WOODWARD

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
BOB DYLAN

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
BOB DYLAN

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic par...
BOB BEAUPREZ

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
BOB MARLEY

We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork.
BOB MCNAIR

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
BOB MARLEY

None but ourselves can free our minds.
BOB MARLEY

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
BOB MARLEY

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are a...
BOB MARLEY

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white m...
BOB MARLEY

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with lif...
BOB MARLEY

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
BOB MARLEY

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
BOB MARLEY

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts...
BOB MARLEY

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I s...
BOB MARLEY

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.
BOB MARLEY

Tell the children the truth.
BOB MARLEY

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for ...
BOB MARLEY

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.
BOB MARLEY

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
BOB MARLEY

You have to be someone.
BOB MARLEY

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.
BOB MARLEY

My future is righteousness.
BOB MARLEY

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that...
BOB MARLEY

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.
BOB PARSONS

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.
BOB ROSS

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
BOB MARLEY

I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
BOB SEGER

Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of c...
BOB FOSSE

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
BOB MARLEY

Man is a universe within himself.
BOB MARLEY

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to ...
BOB MARLEY

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
BOB WOODWARD

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
BOB DYLAN

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil h...
BOB MARLEY

When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick com...
BOB NEWHART

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are ...
BOB EDWARDS

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage...
BOB BARR

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, th...
BOB MARLEY

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet a...
BOB MARLEY

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatev...
BOB MARLEY

There's no use in the prime minister coming to Scotland unless he's prepared to do this deal. Unless...
BOB GELDOF

Italy ... is the least generous of the developed world with regard to aid and that is a shame. We as...
BOB GELDOF

Paul, join the club, dude. It's not that hard.
BOB GELDOF

We live in a broken world which has never been healthier, wealthier or bizarrely, free of conflict, ...
BOB GELDOF

I understand this is a process but the process should have been accelerated and added to at the UN.
BOB GELDOF

You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical -- ...
BOB GELDOF

If we can get the domestic heat to such a temperature, just possibly we can reach down that ladder a...
BOB GELDOF

I will be extremely active in trying to get these people thrown out of office.
BOB GELDOF

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organiza...
BOB GELDOF

I never eat anything white.. white flour, white milk, white cream, eggwhites, white sugar, white pot...
BOB CUMMINGS

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
BOB COUSY

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. ...
BOB UECKER

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shop...
BOB GOODLATTE

Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighbo...
BOB EHRLICH

I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn't like me and I thought the moustache hid a...
BOB AINSWORTH

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.
BOB ODENKIRK

After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might thi...
BOB BEAUPREZ

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
BOB MCDONNELL

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to ...
BOB WOODWARD

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adop...
BOB NEY

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw ...
BOB DYLAN

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech...
BOB KAHN

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by v...
BOB DYLAN

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
BOB DYLAN

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
BOB DYLAN

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
BOB DYLAN

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusion...
BOB DYLAN

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know fo...
BOB DYLAN

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade ...
BOB DYLAN

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
BOB DYLAN

There is nothing so stable as change.
BOB DYLAN

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
BOB DYLAN

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not alway...
BOB MORLEY

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.
BOB WICKMAN

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.
BOB GUNTON

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
BOB DYLAN

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have tha...
BOB UECKER

Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.
BOB FERRIS

In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching doo...
BOB BEAUPREZ

The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class societ...
BOB BLACK

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stu...
BOB BLACK

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shoul...
BOB MENENDEZ

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings...
BOB NEY

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go ...
BOB UECKER

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
BOB IGER

I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue t...
BOB IGER

Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangel...
BOB ROSS

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
BOB MARLEY

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
BOB SCHIEFFER

To get, give.
BOB ROTH

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.
BOB MASSIE

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
BOB DYLAN

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
BOB EDWARDS

He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can mak...
BOB MARLEY

Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
BOB MARLEY

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, moth...
BOB DYLAN

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.
BOB MONKHOUSE

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
BOB MARLEY

Wake up and live
BOB MARLEY

Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy
BOB MARLEY

In high seas or in low seas,
I'm gonna be your friend...
I'm gonna be your friend.
In...
BOB MARLEY

Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.
BOB MARLEY

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
BOB DYLAN

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
BOB MARLEY

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around....
BOB MARLEY

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does wha...
BOB DYLAN

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.
BOB DYLAN

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you won...
BOB MARLEY

One love, one heart, one destiny.
BOB MARLEY

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she lov...
BOB MARLEY

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability t...
BOB MARLEY

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
BOB HOPE

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. About Russia
BOB HOPE

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
BOB GELDOF

Money doesn't talk, it swears.
BOB DYLAN

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
BOB RICHARDS

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly ...
BOB DYLAN

I just got an e-mail from a woman in Red Deer, Alberta reporting that she saw one up there. We have a few members who live where they will see them but so far, no reports. But just because nobody has reported them, doesn't mean they haven't seen them.

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Bob Niebuhr

I just got an e-mail from a woman in Red Deer, Alberta reporting that she saw one up there. We have a few members who live where they will see them but so far, no reports. But just because nobody has reported them, doesn't mean they haven't seen them.

Bob Niebuhr

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