"Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what……" — 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, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair"
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Richard John Neuhaus
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25 Quotes by Richard John Neuhaus
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One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner…
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In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have…
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If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.
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Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is…
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One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.
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Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
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My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I…
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Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
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We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates…
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In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate…
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The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.
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Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a…
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True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by…
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There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies,
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