Richard John Neuhaus Quotes


"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
(Related: Love, Community, Gay, Hate, Maxim, Sin)

"My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism."
- Richard John Neuhaus
(Related: Church, Eyes, Open)

"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
(Related: Society, Leader, Hope, Possibility, Church, Prophecy, Will)

"Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon."
- Richard John Neuhaus
(Related: Religion, Evil, Potential)

"Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion."
- Richard John Neuhaus
(Related: Religion, People, Socialism)