Quotes from Leonardo Boff

When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.

Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.

Our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.

The process of liberation brings with it a profound conflict. Having the project be clear is not enough. What is necessary is a spirituality of resistance and of renewed hope to turn ever back to the struggle in the face of the defeats of the oppressed.

Hoy el papa actual vive repitiendo la sentencia medieval, superada por el Vaticano II, de que «fuera de la Iglesia no hay salvación»... Pensar así es tener poca fe e imaginar que Dios tiene el tamaño de nuestra cabeza.

The poor can break out of their situation of oppression only by working out a strategy better able to change social conditions: the strategy of liberation. In liberation, the oppressed come together, come to understand their situation through the process of conscientization,3 discover the causes of their oppression, organize themselves into movements, and act in a coordinated fashion.

We are convinced that believing in God is worthwhile. We thereby want to express the conviction that it is not death that has the last word but life; it is not the absurd but the full meaning in life that wins the day.