Gelassenheitsgebet in der verbreiteten Übersetzung Theodor Wilhelms aus dessen 1951 unter dem Pseudonym Friedrich Oetinger erschienenen Buch Wendepunkt der politischen Erziehung; oft fälschlich Friedrich Christoph Oetinger zugeschrieben. Siehe Referat von Dr. Eberhard Zwink, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/handschriften/bestand/nachlaesse-und-autographen/oetinger-archiv/gelassenheitsgebet/, 19. Februar 2007. Siehe auch Gelassenheitsgebet
Original engl.: "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
Reinhold Niebuhr Zitate und Sprüche
Die Kinder des Lichts und die Kinder der Finsternis, Kaiser München 1947, Seite 10 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=xY4_AAAAIAAJ&q=%22neigung+zur%22.
“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” - The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense. Scribner's New York 1944. Foreword
Reinhold Niebuhr: Zitate auf Englisch
vol. 1, p. 131
The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (1941)
I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits — the relevant fruits — are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
The Mike Wallace Interview (1958)
Full version of the original (ca. 1942)
The Serenity Prayer (c. 1942)
