St. Óscar Romero, in full Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador who served as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. He spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations, and torture amid a growing war between left-wing and right-wing forces. Profound Oscar A. Romero quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Most Famous Oscar A. Romero Quotes
The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless Oscar Romero
Would that social movements knew this social teaching! They would not expose themselves to failures, to shortsightedness, to a nearsightedness that sees no more than temporal things Oscar Romero
Aspire not to have more, but to be more Oscar Romero
Christianity cares about human development, about the political and social aspects of life Oscar Romero
A church that doesn’t provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed what gospel is that? Oscar Romero
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 Oscar Romero
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that This enables us to do something, and to do it very well It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest Oscar Ro Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world Oscar Romero
Blessed are those who are chosen to continue on earth the great injustice suffered by Christ, who keeps on saving the world Oscar Romero
Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world Oscar Romero
Blessed are the poor, for they know that their riches are in the One who being rich made himself poor in order to enrich us with his poverty Oscar Romero
I do not believe in death without resurrection If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador Oscar Romero
The Spirit is never old; the Spirit is always young Oscar Romero
There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried Oscar Romero
The church, entrusted with the earth’s glory, believes that in each person is the Creator’s image and that everyone who tramples it offends God Oscar Romero
When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises Oscar Romero
Even though working for liberation along with those who hold other ideologies, Christians must cling to their original liberation Oscar Romero
I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally Oscar Romero
The church’s option is for what Christ says in the Beatitudes Oscar Romero
Some want to keep a gospel so disembodied that it doesn’t get involved at all in the world it must save Oscar Romero
Peace is the product of justice and love Oscar Romero
When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God’s promise Oscar Romero
Brothers, you came from our own people You are killing your own brothers Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God, which says, Thou shalt not kill No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God No one has to obey an immoral law It is high time you obeyed your consciences rather than sinful orders The church cannot remain silent before such an abomination In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cry rises to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you stop the repression Oscar Romero
Vatican Council II says that Mary stands out among the poor who await redemption from God Oscar Romero
We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways Oscar Romero
Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world Oscar Romero
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs We are prophets of a future not our own Oscar Romero
If you obey God’s law, you will live Although they kill me, I have no need Oscar Romero
Let us not tire of preaching love it is the force that will overcome the world Let us not tire of preaching love Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can Oscar Romero
God is not satisfied with appearance God wants the garment of justice God wants his Christians dressed in love Oscar Romero
Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be Oscar Romero
It pains my heart deeply to know how our people are tortured, how the rights of God’s image are trampled Oscar Romero
You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perishOscar Romero
The church is pointing out sin, and society must listen to that accusation and be converted and so become what God wants Oscar Romero
When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own Oscar Romero
As Christians formed in the gospel you have the right to organize and, inspired by the gospel, to make concrete decisions Oscar Romero
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 Oscar Romero
And, says St. Peter, almost poetically, this faith, like a lamp burning in the night, will light up the darkness until the morning star arises Oscar Romero
God is not satisfied with appearance God wants the garment of justice God wants his Christians dressed in love Oscar Romero
Blessed are those who are chosen to continue on earth the great injustice suffered by Christ, who keeps on saving the world Oscar Romero
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 Oscar Romero
There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried Oscar Romero
A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth beware! is not the true church of Jesus Christ A preaching that does not point out sin is not the preaching of the gospel. A preaching that makes sinners feel good, so that they are secured in their sinful state, betrays the gospel’s call Oscar Romero
No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has the courage to touch it Oscar Romero
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down Oscar Romero
As we draw near to the poor, we find we are gradually uncovering the genuine face of the Suffering Servant of Yahweh Oscar Romero
