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"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."
"The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it."
"Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples."
"It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any."
"When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church."
"If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them."
"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."
"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"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."
"Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon."
"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."
"My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism."
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