A Quote by Richard John Neuhaus

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

Richard John Neuhaus

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Richard John Neuhaus
American - Writer
Born: May 21, 1936

Donald Trump is a phenomenon. Barack Obama was a phenomenon. A phenomenon is a 'happening' or an 'experience.'

Martha MacCallum

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

Leon Jouhaux

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

John Archibald Wheeler

There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love!

Ted Dekker

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

John Brunner

A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the sacred.

Mircea Eliade

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

Georgia Harkness

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

Blair Underwood

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."

M. Scott Peck

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Poor quality of representatives... is not a purely Australian phenomenon - it's a worldwide phenomenon.

Bob Hawke

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

John Searle

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

Lawrence Summers

thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.

Salman Rushdie

I don't hear women who are less privileged thinking they're entitled to everything, whenever they want it. That's a privilege phenomenon, but it is a phenomenon.