"There has always been a certain proportion of……" — Andrew Greeley
"There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s."
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46 Quotes by Andrew Greeley
Andrew Greeley has 46 quotes on this site.
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We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
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Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of…
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Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.
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My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.
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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more…
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We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the…
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I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major…
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In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a…
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An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so…
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I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with…
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I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write…
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The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching…
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More Authority Quotes
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
— Francis Bacon
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
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I cannot stand authority.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
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