Stephen L. Carter

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

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than…

— Stephen L. Carter

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them…

— Stephen L. Carter

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

— Stephen L. Carter

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by…

— Stephen L. Carter

You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that…

— Stephen L. Carter

We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be…

— Stephen L. Carter

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited…

— Stephen L. Carter

“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

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is…

— Stephen L. Carter

“Love is an activity, not a feeling…True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one’s fervent affection;…

— Stephen L. Carter

But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,…

— Stephen L. Carter

In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the…

— Stephen L. Carter

Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly…

— Stephen L. Carter

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

— Stephen L. Carter

We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret…

— Stephen L. Carter

True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity…

— Stephen L. Carter

If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely…

— Stephen L. Carter

“Fidelity in a sad marriage can fairly be described as an act of faith.”

— Stephen L. Carter

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love…

— Stephen L. Carter

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

— Stephen L. Carter

The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their…

— Stephen L. Carter

This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do…

— Stephen L. Carter