Theodore Hesburgh
Theodore Hesburgh
Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC, was a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, was president of the University of Notre Dame for 35 years. He is the namesake for TIAA–CREF's Hesburgh Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth25 May 1917
CountryUnited States of America
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There's only one way to do it, ... That is to put yourself in the hands of the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Mother. You will see heartbreaks as well as days of great joy. There will be celebration as well as days of mourning in this church. But with the Holy Spirit behind you and the Holy Mother inspiring you, these will be great years.
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My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.
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I have a lot to be humble about, ... I'd like to say that it's the happiest day of my life, but it isn't: The happiest day of my life was when I was anointed a Catholic priest.
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It's like having a cobra in the nursery with your grandchildren. You get rid of the cobra or you won't have any grandchildren.
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Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and billions of kinds of intelligent beings. As a theologian, I would say that the proposed search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is also a search of knowing and understanding God through his works - especially those works that most reflect Him. Finding others than ourselves would mean knowing Him better.
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The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.
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Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
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It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
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You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
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I'll have another beer. I'm not driving.
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It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.
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There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.
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Voting is a civic sacrament.
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All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.