True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable. — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter. — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share
We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
“Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.” — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
“Love is an activity, not a feeling…True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one’s fervent affection; true love… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
