Quotes from Oscar Romero
Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.
— Oscar Romero
Peace is the product of justice and love.
— Oscar Romero
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.
— Oscar Romero
We are prophets of a future not our own.
— Oscar Romero
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.
— Oscar Romero
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
— Oscar Romero
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.
— Oscar Romero
God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.
— Oscar Romero
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.
— Oscar Romero
I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.
— Oscar Romero
PEACE is generosity. It is right and it is duty.
— Oscar Romero
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
— Oscar Romero