Helder Camara Quotes

#1. I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity.

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#2. Anytime, day or night, at home or in the street, wherever we are, we are bathed in God.

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#3. Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.

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#4. When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

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#5. Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

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#6. In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants ...

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#7. When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

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#8. God looks unjust but is not. God asks more from those who more is given. They are not greater or better; they have greater responsibility. They must give more service. Live to serve.

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