Oscar Romero Quotes

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

Suffering, if you're a Christian, suffering is a part of life. And it's not a bad thing, it is an essential thing in life... There are all different ways to suffer. One way to suffer is through lack of food and shelter and there's another way to suffer which is lack of dignity and hope and there's all sorts of ways that people suffer and it's not just tangible, it's also intangible and we have to consider both.

What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.

The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ

We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.

In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.

Poverty is the center of the Gospel.

I am passionate about human rights.

I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

How can you worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.