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God draws straight with crooked lines.

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Andrew Greeley
Age: 85 †
Born: 1928
Born: February 5
Died: 2013
Died: May 29
Catholic Priest
Journalist
Novelist
Priest
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Andrew M. Greeley
Andrew Moran Greeley
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Crooked
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Catholic

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If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try to carry on with You each day is comic-what could be more comic than a human addressing the Ground of Being as an intimate? It's a kind of blasphemy that I dare because you have called for it, and that is pretty humorous, too.
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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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It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.
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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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The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.
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Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.
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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.
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When I can go just where I want to go, There is a copse of birch trees that I know And, as in Eden Adam walked with God, When in that quiet aisle my feet have trod I have found peace among the silver trees, Known comfort in the cool kiss of the breeze Heard music in its whisper, and have known Most certainly that I was not alone!
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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.
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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 should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.
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Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?
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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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My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.
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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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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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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.
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We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
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