Occupation: Biographer Birth: August 15, 1917 Death: March 24, 1980
Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of viole….
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, who have tor….
Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world..
If God accepts the sacrifice of my life, may my death be for the freedom of my people. A bishop will die, but the Church of God, which is the people,….
If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they don’t let us speak, if they kill all the priests and ….
As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kil….
There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abus….
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 wants us to live; we can on….
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that..
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 well. It may be inc….
Ask and it shall be given you; Seek and ye shall find; Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh, receiveth; And he that seeket….
Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force o….
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..
No confession brings perfection..
It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but….
We are prophets of a future not our own..
A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that does….
The church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the gospel if it stopped being . . . a defender of the rights of the poor . . . a hu….
God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love..
You know that the air and water are being polluted, as is everything we touch and live with, and we go on corrupting the nature that we need. We don'….
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive w….