I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own,… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths - we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share
Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The northern hemisphere, the developed area of the world, the 20% who possess 80% of the world's resources, are of Christian origin. What impression can our African and Asian brethren and the masses in Latin America have of Christianity, if the tree is to be judged by its fruits? For we Christians are… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share
In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
God looks unjust but is not. God asks more from those who more is given. They are not greater or better; they have greater… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
Anytime, day or night, at home or in the street, wherever we are, we are bathed in God. — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants... — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
God accepts the risk of appearing to be unjust. God looks unjust, but he is not. He asks more from those to whom he… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
Any time, day or night, at home or in the street, wherever we are, we live bathed in God. If we always kept this… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
“The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion and chaos,… — Helder Camara Copy Share Image
