7 Quotes & Sayings By Andrew Greeley

Andrew Greeley is a professor emeritus and director of social research at the University of Chicago. He received his D. Phil in philosophy from Oxford University and his D.Phil in religion from Cambridge University. He was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize in 1993 and has been a visiting professor at numerous universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Tufts, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Chicago Read more

In 1990 he received the American Sociological Association's highest honor, its Silver Gavel Award for distinguished contributions to sociology. In 1997 he received the American Academy of Religion's highest honor, its Award in Excellence in Theology. He has received honorary degrees from Luther College in Missouri and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He is a distinguished fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? Andrew Greeley
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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
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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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Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. Andrew Greeley
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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. Andrew Greeley
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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