Occupation: Biographer Birth: August 15, 1917 Death: March 24, 1980
Peace is the product of justice and love..
There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried.
Aspire not to have more, but to be more..
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured..
A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult….
Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the ma….
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 which th….
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 fend off danger will ….
No prayer fully expresses our faith..
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 those who are hun….
The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolat….
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own..
True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others..
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 us and who want….
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker..
When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's d….
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 God, which says,….
I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador..
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 root of all violence: s….
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 dies. If it w….
When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, with….