Quotes from 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.

Peace is the product of justice and love.

Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

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.

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.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

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.

Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.

God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.

One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.

As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.

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.

I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.

We are prophets of a future not our own.