Oscar Romero Quotes

The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.

I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.

Aspire not to have more, but to be more.

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 the cry arises.

Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.

We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried

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, abuses God's image.

Peace is the product of justice and love.

God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.

Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

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 cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.

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 difficulties.

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 lose their lives.

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 she loved me because she carried me in her womb.

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 majority of people.

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 wants to save us.

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

We are prophets of a future not our own.

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 kill me.

We lay foundations that will need further development.

No confession brings perfection.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble.

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 hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.