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

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 right to a hearing by the value of what they say, and not by virtue of who is saying it. Today, authority has to earn respect by the intrinsic value of what it says, not by the force of its imposition.

Richard Holloway

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

Richard Holloway

Richard Holloway

Richard Holloway

Born: November 26, 1933 (age 92)

Bio: Richard Holloway is a Scottish writer, broadcaster and cleric. He was Bishop of Edinburgh from 1986 to 2000 and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1992 to 2000.

Known for:

Godless Morality (1999)
Doubts and Loves (2001)
On Forgiveness (2002)
Looking in the Distance (2004)

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