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

~Andrew Greeley

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There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

~Andrew Greeley

Topics: Among Data Found Generation Good Good News News Priests Strongest Support Younger Younger Generation

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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.

~Andrew Greeley

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

~Andrew Greeley

Topics: Acceptable Example Good Good Example Kind Only Think I Think

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Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

~Andrew Greeley

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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.

~Andrew Greeley

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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.

~Andrew Greeley

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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.

~Andrew Greeley

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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.

~Andrew 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.

~Andrew Greeley

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: February 5th, 1928

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