24+ Richard John Neuhaus Quotes On Education, Religion And Death

Richard John Neuhaus was an American writer, public intellectual, and theologian. He was a Lutheran minister and the editor-in-chief of the religious journal First Things. Neuhaus was a prominent voice in the conservative movement and was a major influence on the George W. Bush administration. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Richard John Neuhaus on education, life, religion.

Top 10 Richard John Neuhaus Quotes

1. My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.
2. 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.
3. If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.
4. One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.
5. 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.
6. Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
7. I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.
8. 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.
9. Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
10. Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

Richard John Neuhaus Quotes About Religion

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic. — Richard John Neuhaus

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

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. — Richard John Neuhaus

Richard John Neuhaus Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

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. — Richard John Neuhaus

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing. — Richard John Neuhaus

Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. ... God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see. — Richard John Neuhaus

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town. — 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 — Richard John Neuhaus

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

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. — Richard John Neuhaus

Life Lessons by Richard John Neuhaus

1. Richard John Neuhaus taught that it is important to strive for justice and peace, to be open to dialogue and to respect the dignity of all people.
2. He believed that faith and reason must be integrated in order to achieve a more just and peaceful world.
3. He also encouraged individuals to take responsibility for their own actions and to work for the common good.