All Oscar Romero Quotes
- We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very… Along
- Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently… All
- I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that is all Salvadoreans, even those… All
- We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured. Been
- We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have… Among
- Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of… Abomination
- When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from… Arise
- That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of… Blood
- I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the… All
- Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who have killed,… Bloodied
- The who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless. Catholicism
- Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of… Christ
- We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own. Builder
- When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for… Abuse
- Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most… Boldness
- There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried Cried
- Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God… Able
- I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves… Affirmation
- The church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the gospel if it stopped being . . . a defender of… Achieve
- You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize… Bishop
- A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is not the true… Betray
- One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that… Avoid
- I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador. Believe
- Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Force
- Aspire not to have more, but to be more. Aspire