Andrew Greeley Quotes

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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.
• Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same…
• Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.
• My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.
• There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more…
• We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.
• I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken…
• In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God…
• An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the…
• I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
• I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish.…
• The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that…
• The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
• I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief…
• Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away…
• There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
• The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still…
• Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom…
• If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try to carry on…
• Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not…

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