Andrew Greeley Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• 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

  People, Choices, Catholic

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

• 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, Ice, Church

• Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.

  Andrew Greeley

  Perfect, Church, Realizing

• The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.

  Andrew Greeley

  Running, Men, Years

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