"At Swanwick when Niebuhr had quit it A young man exclaimed "I have hit it! Since I cannot do right, I must find out tonight The right sin to commit and commit it.""
— Reinhold Niebuhr

January 1, 1970

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William Temple, limerick composed after hearing Reinhold Niebuhr lecture in 1939, as cited in "Reinhold Niebuhr," Grand Street, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter, 1987), p. 212 and Sensei: A Journey from Dust-Bowl Farm Boy to "Honored Teacher" in Japan, p. 131