Neuhaus Quotes

#1. Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion.

Stephen L. Carter

#2. If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

Richard John Neuhaus

#3. One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

Richard John Neuhaus

#4. A handy man's worth his weight in gold. You

Nora Roberts

#5. Mathematics and music are at the opposite poles of the human spirit. These two antipodes confine and determine all creative and spiritual activity of a human being. Whatever is done by humanity in the art-and-science domain is placed in-between.

Heinrich Neuhaus

#6. My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

Richard John Neuhaus

#7. 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 evidence to the contrary.

Richard John Neuhaus

#8. 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 by which our every day is sustained.

Richard John Neuhaus

#9. 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.

Richard John Neuhaus

#10. Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself

Heinrich Neuhaus

#11. 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.

Richard John Neuhaus

#12. How does anyone ever know anything - the past is a fog that breathes out ghost after ghost, the present a freeway thunder run at 90 mph, which makes the future the ultimate black hole of futile speculation.

Ben Fountain

#13. In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

Richard John Neuhaus

#14. Because of my life experiences, I understand that I have an opportunity to help other women. I have the desire and the ability.

Gloria Allred

#15. 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 step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person ...

Richard John Neuhaus

#16. 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.

Richard John Neuhaus

#17. Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.

William J.H. Boetcker

#18. Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

Richard John Neuhaus

#19. I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.

Percy Sledge

#20. 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.

Richard John Neuhaus

#21. All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

Richard John Neuhaus

#22. Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

Richard John Neuhaus

#23. I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.

Alison Moore

#24. Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

Richard John Neuhaus

#25. Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Richard John Neuhaus

#26. I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

Richard John Neuhaus

#27. All world events are placed in time bt God

Sunday Adelaja

#28. There's nothing wrong with you Ray, your only trouble is you never learned to get out to spots like this, you've let the world drown you in its horseshit and you've been vexed ...

Jack Kerouac

#29. 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.

Richard John Neuhaus

#30. With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

Eric Metaxas

#31. The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Richard John Neuhaus

#32. There is a difference," I said stiffly, "between being naive and being innocent.

Kristen D. Randle

#33. The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

Albert Einstein

#34. If my ex-husband had had his way, I would have quit writing and continued working in his factory.

Nele Neuhaus

#35. Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

Richard John Neuhaus