Andrew Greeley Quotes

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• Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

  Andrew Greeley

  Inspirational, Angel, Care

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• Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.

  Andrew Greeley

  Inspirational, Angel, Care

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• The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

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  Love You, Giving, Fulfillment

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• 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 casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.

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  Friendship, Creative, Different

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• It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.

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  Rip, Men, Law

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• God draws straight with crooked lines.

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  Catholic, Lines, Draws

  Andrew Greeley (2008). “Common Ground: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together”, p.219, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

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  Done, Begin Again, Hard

  Andrew M. Greeley (1993). “Love Affair: A Prayer Journal”, Crossroad

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• People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.

  Andrew Greeley

  People, Choices, Catholic

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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• Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

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  Talking, Stories

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• My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

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  Song, Life And Love, Forgotten

  Andrew M. Greeley (2002). “Letters to a Loving God: A Prayer Journal”, p.182, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When I can go just where I want to go, There is a copse of birch trees that I know; And, as in Eden Adam walked with God, When in that quiet aisle my feet have trod I have found peace among the silver trees, Known comfort in the cool kiss of the breeze Heard music in its whisper, and have known Most certainly that I was not alone!

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  Kissing, Eden, Feet

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• I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

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  Thinking, Example, Kind

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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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 end.

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  Life, Death, Hope

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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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  Romantic Love, Second Chance, Give Me A Chance

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• If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

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  Years, Catholic, Stories

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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• Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

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  Constraints

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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• The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.

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  Love Is, Hands, Friendly

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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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 traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

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  Teaching, Men, Opposites

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• Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.

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  Perfect, Church, Realizing

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• 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 cloud.

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  Clouds, Mass Destruction, Mushrooms

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• Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

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  Engagement, Behavior, Surveys

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• I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

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  Real, Thinking, Political

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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• I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

  Andrew Greeley

  Writing, Character, Way

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• As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

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  War, Years, Europe

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• It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

  Andrew Greeley

  Art, School, Catholic

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