Richard John Neuhaus Quotes
Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.
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In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result.
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I was really only around country music on the radio, and I think because I grew up so close to Atlanta, and R&B was such a big part of that culture, by proximity I think a lot of that music influenced me without knowing it.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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Modern morality is all about perception.
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I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.
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Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
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Fame and fortune is a magnet.It can pull you far away from homeWith a dream in your heart you're never alone.Dreams turn into dust and blow awayAnd there you are without a friend
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The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.
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Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.
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The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.
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The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.
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I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.
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Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.
