There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and networks that supported peop…

- Richard Holloway

Religion is the most powerful alternative to God.

- Richard Holloway

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

- Richard Holloway

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 ou…

- Richard Holloway

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

- Richard Holloway

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

- Richard Holloway

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

- Richard Holloway

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their…

- Richard Holloway

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. Th…

- Richard Holloway