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1. "I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work." ~ Andrew Greeley
2. "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
3. "Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort." ~ Andrew Greeley
4. "Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it." ~ Andrew Greeley
5. "I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example." ~ Andrew Greeley
6. "Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?" ~ Andrew Greeley
7. "The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women." ~ Andrew Greeley
8. "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
9. "I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion." ~ Andrew Greeley
10. "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
11. "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
12. "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
13. "Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life." ~ Andrew Greeley
14. "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
15. "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
16. "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
17. "If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic." ~ Andrew Greeley
18. "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
19. "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
20. "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

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