Richard Holloway Quotes

#1. One of the most important elements in the evolution of human institutions is the emergence of the difficult customer within the system itself, the radical who starts to question its very being, the reformer who calls for changes in the way it runs.

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#2. When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time', it is already out of fashion.

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#3. Religion is the most powerful alternative to God.

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#4. Events that come on tiptoe often change the world.

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#5. Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our lives.

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#6. We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.

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#7. When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

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#8. The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

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#9. God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

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#10. Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.

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#11. The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

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#12. Truth is rarely simple and seldom obvious, which is why mature institutions recognise the importance of conflict and disagreement. Christianity was born in conflict, and it has been characterised by conflict ever since. The Church's obsession with heresy is witness to this fact.

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#13. Never give people power over you until you know how to get rid of them.

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#14. Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

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