Helder Camara Quotes

#1. Dom Helder Camara, a twentieth-century bishop in Brazil, said, When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a Communist.

Shane Claiborne

#2. Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

Jim Rohn

#3. 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.

Helder Camara

#4. Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.

Astro Teller

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

Helder Camara

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

Helder Camara

#7. I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. 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.

Helder Camara

#9. People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.

Steven Spielberg

#10. He took a step closer, his breath falling on my face. "You can do whatever the fuck you want. You have a long leash.

L.J. Shen

#11. Any man is good when life treats him well, and bad when it treats him badly.

Simonides

#12. 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.

Helder Camara

#13. Until those charismatic churches who have poor teaching can supply both spiritual empowerment and sounder teaching, many of them will continue to be only a way station for Christians who need a fresh spiritual experience but who end up taking it elsewhere once they have it.

Craig S. Keener

#14. Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks.

Mao Zedong

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

Helder Camara

#16. I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the last eight episodes.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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

Helder Camara

#18. 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.

Helder Camara

#19. All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.

Catharine Maria Sedgwick