List of Richard John Neuhaus Quotes

Determined Secularists View These As Residual Inconsistencies That They Have Not Yet Go Around To Extirpating And That May Not Be Worth Bothering About... Form The Secularist Perspective It May Be That The Essential Battles Have Been Won And Excessive Zeal In Pressing A Final Mopping-up Operation Might Only Excited Further Public Hostility.

Religion As A Human Phenomenon Is As Riddled Through With Potential For Both Good And Evil As Any Other Phenomenon.

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 Is Not A Prophecy But The Outline Of A Possibility. There Are No Guarantees That My Hopes Expressed In The Catholic Moment Will Ever Be Realised.

My Eyes Are Wide Open To The Conflicts Within The Church, But I Don't Think You Can Call It Schism.

If The Cause Of Poverty Is Marginalization, The Cure Is Inclusion.

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 Would Want In This Circumstance In Which They Cannot Themselves Tell Us What They Want, A 'rational' Person - Meaning, Myself - In That Circumstance Would Want To Die.' So You Move Very Quickly From So-called Voluntary Euthanasia To Involuntary Euthanasia. These Legal And Medical Developments Are Not Simply Hypothetical They're In The Courts Right Now.

Progress Without The Reasoned Freedom To Think And Act Is Regression To Slavery.

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 Christian Ethics. But Pastorally And Existentially, I Know That This Is Not The Case, And Never Has Been.

Whatever Else The Religious Right May Be, It Is A Bonanza For Its Opponents... Reports Of The Great Terror That Is Upon Us Are Raising Millions Of Dollars In Fund Appeals By Planned Parenthood, The American Civil Liberties Union, The National Organization For Women, Norman Lear's People For The American Way, And Others Who Claim To Believe That The Religious Right Is The Greatest Peril To American Democracy Since Joe Mccarthy.

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 Sin Or Him A Sinner.

All My Life I Have Prayed To God That I Should Remain Religiously Orthodox, Culturally Conservative, Politically Liberal And Economically Pragmatic.

If A Church Offers No Truth That Is Not Available In The General Culture - In, For Instance, The Editorials Of The New York Times Or, For That Matter, Of National Review - There Is Not Much Reason To Pay It Attention.