Andrew Greeley Quotes

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

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

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

God draws straight with crooked lines.

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

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

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

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

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

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 reason-hubris.

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.

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

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

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.

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

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

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

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

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.

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

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.

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.

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. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.