61 Quotes by Andrew Greeley

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.