Andrew Greeley Quotes

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state.

I love religion.

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.