Andrew Greeley Quotes

• 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.

  Andrew Greeley

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

  Andrew Greeley

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

  Andrew Greeley

• 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 in life after death has increased in this century.

  Andrew Greeley

• 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 me… I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely… I could have used a bit more solitude.

  Andrew Greeley

• 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.

  Andrew Greeley

• 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.

  Andrew Greeley

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

  Andrew Greeley

• 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.

  Andrew Greeley

• 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 various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

  Andrew Greeley

Andrew Greeley (30)

Birth:	5th February, 1928
Death:	29th May, 2013
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist, Priest, Professor, Sociologist

About

Andrew M. Greeley was born into a large Irish Catholic family in Oak Park, Illinois. He was an Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and popular novelist. Father Greeley was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago, and a Research Associate with the National Opinion Research Center For many years, he wrote a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times and contributed regularly to The New York Times, the National Catholic Reporter, America, and Commonweal.

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