My belief in God is responsible for what I am. . . How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?
Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.
If God accepts the sacrifice of my life, may my death be for the freedom of my people. A bishop will die, but the Church of God, which is the people, will never perish. I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me, I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.
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.
The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently dies. If it were not to die, it would remain a solitary grain. The harvest comes because of the grain that dies. We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us.
My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.
I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.
He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.