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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
“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.”
“Alonzo has never fought anyone of my caliber. His over confidence is going to find him tasting the canvas early and often. His prospect days are over.”
“Religion declined abruptly in England and the Netherlands. It is stagnant in West Germany, and it is flourishing in Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. I get upset about the sweeping generalization about the decline in religion. Religion is always declining and always reviving.”
“The storyteller is like God, the storyteller creates these characters. Falls in love with them, and then they won't act right.”
“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.”
“One could say at a dinner party that most Americans are faithful to their spouses, and a loud mouth, semi-inebriated jerk can respond that the conclusion cannot be true because look at all the academics who sleep around at professional meetings.”
“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.”
“The leadership blighted the hopes of my generation of priests, a small fact doubtless from their viewpoint. What right did we have to hope anyway? But in their rigidity, they created the climate of insensitivity... God forgive them for losing their nerve.”
“However, during my 48 years as a priest, I have learned that in times of crisis, the dodos always charge in to make matters worse.”
