Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

1924 A Revival Meeting Seems Never To Get Under My Skin. Perhaps I Am Too Fish-blooded To Enjoy Them. But I Object Not So Much To The Emotionalism As To The Lack Of Intellectual Honesty Of The Average Revival Preacher. I Do Not Mean To Imply That The Evangelists Are Necessarily Consciously Dishonest. They Just Don't Know Enough About Life And History To Present The Problem Of The Christian Life In Its Full Meaning. They Are Always Assuming That Nothing But An Emotional Commitment To Christ Is Needed To Save The Soul From Its Sin And Chaos. They Seem Never To Realize How Many Of The Miseries Of Mankind Are Due Not To Malice But To Misdirected Zeal And Unbalanced Virtue. They Never Help The People Who Corrupt Family Love By Making The Family A Selfish Unit In Society Or Those Who Brutalize Industry By Excessive Devotion To The Prudential Virtues.

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