I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

All human eyes have longing in them.

God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

Some of us fought back with guns and assassinations. Others fought back with a little hot dog stand on the corner.

It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.

The best time management tool is a clearly defined and definite purpose for your life.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

Anyone who has spent five seconds in my company, or two seconds in my bedroom knows that I am not a white supremacist.

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

I used to feel famous, but now I feel successful.