The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

So you say you love the poor? Name them.

If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.

Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.

The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.

Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.

[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

The provision is in the promises.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.