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.

Richard John Neuhaus

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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.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Heart
  • Redemption

• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Hand

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Day
  • Religion
  • End

• 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.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Culture
  • You
  • Concept

• I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

  

  Sally Field
  • Heart
  • Sad
  • Broken

• 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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• 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.

  

  Maluma
  • Time
  • Good
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Focus

• For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Music
  • Live
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Ed Townsend
  • Heart
  • End
  • See

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Words

• Modern morality is all about perception.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Perception
  • Modern
  • Morality

• I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Culture
  • Western
  • Pashtun

• Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

  

  Gary Locke
  • America
  • Culture
  • Diversity

• 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

  

  Hal David
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Alone

• After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Family
  • Home
  • American

• What you have to get is a ocean of love within your heart and to seek that in others also.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Heart
  • Ocean

• Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Hand

• I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Great
  • Entrepreneur

• It was Trout’s fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, 'What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man’s first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,'I am here, I am here, I am here.''

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Opportunity
  • Reading
  • Bold

• 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
  • Heart
  • Culture
  • Religion