What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.

I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

All human eyes have longing in them.

God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

War is massacre. It is 100 per cent negative.

News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the world change people's minds about what was possible or tolerable.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.

When you move with this thought that 'I want', then the mind wanders. When you move with this thought that 'I have received', then you are content.