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.

The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.

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

Aspire not to have more, but to be more.

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.

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

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

There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried

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.

Peace is the product of justice and love.

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

Dreams are all very well but are not known to pay the mortgage.

If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?

Demon pox,' said Will with the satisfaction of the truly vindicated.

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.