When I can go just where I want to go, There is a copse of birch trees that I know; And, as in Eden Adam walked with God, When in that quiet aisle my feet have trod I have found peace among the silver trees, Known comfort in the cool kiss of the breeze Heard music in its whisper, and have known Most certainly that I was not alone!

Andrew Greeley

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Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

Andrew Greeley

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The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

Andrew Greeley

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.

Andrew Greeley

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People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.

Andrew Greeley

catholic choices people

God draws straight with crooked lines.

Andrew Greeley

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It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.

Andrew Greeley

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It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

Andrew Greeley

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I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

Andrew Greeley

kind example thinking

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

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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We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

Andrew Greeley

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Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.

Andrew Greeley

care angel inspirational

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

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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

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The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.

Andrew Greeley

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My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

Andrew Greeley

life-and-love forgotten song

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

Andrew Greeley

surveys engagement behavior

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

Andrew Greeley

glowing data support

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

Andrew Greeley

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Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it.

Andrew Greeley

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