Oscar Romero Professions : Biographer Born : August 15, 1917 Died : March 24, 1980 Browse All Authors Top 57 quotes by Oscar Romero Ask and it shall be given you; Seek and ye shall find; Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh, receiveth; And he that seeketh, Findeth; and to him that knocketh It shall be opened. Aspire not to have more, but to be more. Oscar Romero prayers-not-being-answered christian-inspirational given 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 pain self blood Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people. Oscar Romero majority sin people Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who have killed, who have tortured, who have done so much evil, are listening to me? Listen, there in your criminal hideout, perhaps already repentant, you too are called to forgiveness. Oscar Romero evil father hands I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us. Oscar Romero affirmation builder want 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 mother heart moving Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful. Oscar Romero selfish fashion christian Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Oscar Romero dynamism terror peace The Bible has a very meaningful expression: The Spirit makes all things new. We are those who grow old, and we want everything done to our aged standards. The Spirit is never old; the Spirit is always young. Oscar Romero ubuntu meaningful peace If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they don’t let us speak, if they kill all the priests and the bishop too, and you are left, a people without priests, each one of you must be God’s microphone, each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is one baptized person. And that one baptized person who is left in the world is responsible before the world for holding aloft the banner of the Lord’s truth and of his divine justice. Oscar Romero divine-justice long people We lay foundations that will need further development. Oscar Romero foundation development needs 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. Oscar Romero pastor divine giving Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love. Oscar Romero church bears forget No confession brings perfection. Oscar Romero confession perfection Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. Oscar Romero responsibility christian 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 authenticity church christian True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others. Oscar Romero liberty self doe Similar Authors Asahel Nettleton biographer Anne Sebba biographer Bodhidharma biographer Iris Origo biographer Donald Spoto biographer Derek Wilson biographer All Authors