When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

- Hélder Câmara

In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants.

- Hélder Câmara

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who…

- Hélder Câmara

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 r…

- Hélder Câmara

Any time, day or night, at home or in the street, wherever we are, we live bathed in God. If we always kept this in mind, it would be impossible to s…

- Hélder Câmara

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 y…

- Hélder Câmara

God accepts the risk of appearing to be unjust. God looks unjust, but he is not. He asks more from those to whom he gives more. They are not greater …

- Hélder Câmara

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

- Hélder Câmara

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 fermen…

- Hélder Câmara