37 Quotes by Andrew M. Greeley

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

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

The men who were running the church in the late ’60s and ’70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.

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. And it’s a responsibility that I enjoy.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

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

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.

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.