Richard John Neuhaus Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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