Stephen Leacock Quotes


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. Andrew Greeley Country 96
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 Become 81
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. Andrew Greeley Develop 79
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. Andrew Greeley Death 73
Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. Andrew Greeley Religion 72
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. Andrew Greeley Religion 72
As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course. Andrew Greeley Allies 67
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort. Andrew Greeley Behavior 65
The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women. Andrew Greeley Able 63
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? Andrew Greeley American 59
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. Andrew Greeley Science 55
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. Andrew Greeley Leadership 53
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 Experience 53
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 Cabinet 45
I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example. Andrew Greeley Acceptable 37
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? Andrew Greeley Intelligence 36
It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. Andrew Greeley Addressed 35
There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation. Andrew Greeley Among 34
Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. Andrew Greeley Religion 31
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? Andrew Greeley Affection 24

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