Andrew Greeley Quotes

“The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.”

“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.”

“Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.”

“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?”

“Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?”

“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.”

“The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.”

“The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth - truth which tends to make mankind wiser and thus happier.”

“Common sense is very uncommon.”

“While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to concealthe ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we havenationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.”