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Blase J. Cupich Quotes

American - Clergyman | March 19, 1949 -

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

Community People Think Sometimes Who

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 Past People Think Country

Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.

Blase J. Cupich

Moments Fall Back Crisis Need Often

Ultimately, it is only the witness who convinces people, not the teacher.

Blase J. Cupich

Teacher People Only Who Witness

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 Believe Goodness Know

We should be with people who are in need.

Blase J. Cupich

People Need Who Should

In the 40 years that I've been a priest and the 17 as a bishop, I have experienced people coming at things in a different way. That's the way adults are, that's the way the world is, and that's OK.

Blase J. Cupich

People World Way Years Coming Been

We have to learn. We have to listen to where people are. We have to listen to where the Spirit is working in the lives of people.

Blase J. Cupich

People Learn Spirit Listen Working

I grew up in a family of nine children, and I know there has to be a back and forth and a listening.

Blase J. Cupich

Family Children Listening Back Know

I would say the synodal church is like the word itself. It is 'a going on the way together,' and it is a way - whenever people walk, there are people who have been that way before who know that others have been that way before, and so they try to give direction.

Blase J. Cupich

Walk Together People Direction Know

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

Blase J. Cupich

Good Humble Challenge Challenges

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

Think You Find New Sometimes Kind

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