Richard John Neuhaus

“The deeper truth is that reform, if it is real reform, is an exercise of love. Prophecy, if it is real prophecy,…

— Richard John Neuhaus

In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea…

— Richard John Neuhaus

One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is…

— Richard John Neuhaus

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the…

— Richard John Neuhaus

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

— Richard John Neuhaus

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

— Richard John Neuhaus

“In recent decades, "pluralism" has become something of a buzzword. It is variously employed. Often it is used to argue that no…

— Richard John Neuhaus

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by…

— Richard John Neuhaus

Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon…

— Richard John Neuhaus

The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely…

— Richard John Neuhaus

“In other words, every party will be permitted to contend for their truths so long as they acknowledge that they are their…

— Richard John Neuhaus

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

— Richard John Neuhaus

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

— Richard John Neuhaus

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope,…

— Richard John Neuhaus

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

— Richard John Neuhaus

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

— Richard John Neuhaus

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

— Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in…

— Richard John Neuhaus

Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because…

— Richard John Neuhaus

“In a democratic society, presumably, the public business is carried on in conversation with the actual values of people who are the…

— Richard John Neuhaus

We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life,…

— Richard John Neuhaus

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

— Richard John Neuhaus

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama…

— Richard John Neuhaus

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

— Richard John Neuhaus

Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth…

— Richard John Neuhaus