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Blase J. Cupich
Blase J. Cupich
American Clergyman
Born: Mar 19, 1949
Church Life People Society Think Who
Related authors: Billy Graham Charles R. Swindoll Henry Ward Beecher Jim Elliot Joel Osteen John C. Maxwell Norman Vincent Peale Thomas S. Monson
Let's face it: grandparents are very important to family systems. You're babysitters, but you also instill values in children that sometimes skip a generation. Blase J. Cupich
Family You Generation Sometimes Values Face Important Systems Instill Also Very Children Grandparents Skip
People think sometimes there is a 'Catholic vote' because of one particular issue. This demeans who we are as a Catholic community. We should take the whole thing... We take everything. Blase J. Cupich
Vote People Sometimes Community Think Everything Take Particular Catholic Because Issue Should Who Whole Thing
We have never owned, as a country, the damage done not only to people who were enslaved but to future generations in which they were treated. I think that has damaged the future of many African-American people. Some have risen above it quite nobly, but it has impacted generations, and we have to be able to own that as part of the past. Blase J. Cupich
Future People Country Past Own Think Enslaved Future Generations Able Impacted Some Above Risen Only Never Part Generations Nobly Were Owned Done Quite African-American Which Who Many Treated Damage Damaged
Some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don't actually have a kind of faith system that they believe in. But, in their activity, the way they conduct themselves, there's a goodness there. Blase J. Cupich
Faith People Goodness Believe Way System Kind Some Know Greatest Conduct Themselves Who Activity Actually Christians
We want to inspire people to work together, giving them hope that we can do something even if we cannot do everything. Blase J. Cupich
Work Hope Together People Inspire Giving Everything We Cannot Something Want Cannot Them Work Together Even
My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one. Blase J. Cupich
You Sometimes Think Way Circumstance Kind Find Paralyze Folks Able Some Take Outside Had Knew New Also Practical Make Box Passed Were Very Going Just Them Us Initiative
The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society. Blase J. Cupich
Good People Church Will Society Enormous Footprint Catholic Catholic Church Because Felt Doing Lot Chicago Succeed Aspiration
There is a synergy between the way Croatians approach life and the way Jesuits do. Croatians are very real about situations. We don't gloss over things. If there are issues to deal with, you deal with them. Blase J. Cupich
Life You Approach Synergy Way About Between Over Deal Gloss Real Issues Very Situations Them Things Jesuits
We're all different; we all have our ways of understanding ourselves and the way we live our lives and struggle with our humanity. Blase J. Cupich
Struggle Humanity Understanding Live Our Way Our Lives Ways Ourselves Different Lives
Getting to know people as they are is very, very important. Blase J. Cupich
People Important Know Very Getting
I commend the parents who are sending their children to a Catholic school, because they're making a sacrifice, and they're paying twice for their child's education: They're paying the tuition, and they're paying taxes. Blase J. Cupich
Education School Parents Sacrifice Catholic Catholic School Because Making Commend Child Sending Tuition Children Taxes Paying Who Twice
We have to become involved in the political process - if we don't like it, we can change it. Blase J. Cupich
Change Political Become Like Involved Political Process Process
Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence. Blase J. Cupich
Problems Face Compounds Segregated Both Fact Highly Causes Chicago End Bringing Violence
Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it. Blase J. Cupich
Good You Feel Good People Respectful Unnecessarily Only Feel Openness Talk Make Sure Because Antagonistic Coming Done Going Listen Where Anything
We don't need more divisive language or programs and policies that are going to tear the fabric of the nation apart. Blase J. Cupich
Language Nation Programs Fabric More Divisive Policies Going Apart Tear Need
Realities are greater than ideas. Because sometimes ideas can separate us unnecessarily. So let's attend to the realities that we have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. That's what I want to do. Blase J. Cupich
Sometimes Unnecessarily Attend Day-To-Day Ideas Greater Because Deal Than Want Realities Us Separate Basis
I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot. Blase J. Cupich
Time People Take Learn Lot
I want to be a partner with business, labor, civic leaders, foundations, other churches so that we can work together... If I can talk to all of these people and have something in common, maybe I can get them to see that they also have something in common with each other when we come together. Blase J. Cupich
Work Business Together People Partner Other Churches Civic See Something Leaders Come Talk Also Labor Get Maybe Common Want Them Work Together Each Foundations
We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another. Blase J. Cupich
War Military Society Our Weapons Supposed Another Need
Once we begin to make our churches safety zones in a military-style approach, we're going to lose something of the character of our places of worship. Blase J. Cupich
Character Safety Lose Approach Our Once Worship Churches Something Make Begin Going Places Zone
We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated. Blase J. Cupich
Suffering People Build Solidarity Folks Excluded Know Integrated Want
We're not a Church of preservation but rather a Church of proclamation. To achieve this end, we must be open to significant, if not revolutionary, changes in how the Archdiocese with its parishes and ministries is organized, how it's resourced, how it's staffed. Blase J. Cupich
Achieve Church Changes Significant Must Rather Open How End Revolutionary Proclamation Organized Preservation
The Church is not fully Church if it lacks dialogue. Blase J. Cupich
Church Dialogue Lacks Fully
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