Richard Holloway Quotes

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.

Religion is the most powerful alternative to God.

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our lives.

We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.