All Richard John Neuhaus Quotes
- One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with… According
- In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person… Called
- If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion. Cause
- Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love… Day
- One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism. Anti
- Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery. Act
- My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment… Catholic
- Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion. Inspirational
- We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every… Along
- In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a… Anyone
- The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing. First Thing
- Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect. Bond
- Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed. Inspirational
- Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who… Beings
- Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion. Chiefly
- All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic. All
- If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times… Attention
- My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism. Call
- Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. Any
- Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than… Consumed
- For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our… All
- Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other… Acknowledgment
- Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent… Argument
- In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town. Absence
- The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely socialism Capitalism