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I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.
Andrew Greeley
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Andrew Greeley
Age: 85 †
Born: 1928
Born: February 5
Died: 2013
Died: May 29
Catholic Priest
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Oak Park
Illinois
Andrew M. Greeley
Andrew Moran Greeley
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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.
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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.
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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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The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.
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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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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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It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.
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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.
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The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.
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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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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.
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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.
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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?
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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
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Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
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The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
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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.
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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.
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