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
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
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
— 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
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
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
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.
— Oscar Romero