Helder Quotes

#1. Don't get sucked in, Dave was always saying to me. Kind of like Helder's container idea: Notice everything, but don't buy into it. Hold it.

Heather Sellers

#2. When I thought about it, though, what I liked best about the session was that Helder said fuck. A good, hard word, a word with a life of its own, a fearless word. A rent in the dry elegance. Fuck.

Heather Sellers

#3. Helder said the goal of therapy was to make a container to hold all the disparate selves. I was going to need a big container. One that could hold hordes.

Heather Sellers

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

Richard Cobden

#7. By this time the Vietnam War was such a confusing issue to most Americans that Nixon could take as many positions as he liked and find support somewhere for them all. Roughly equal numbers wanted to expand the war as negotiate a peace.

Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

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

Helder Camara

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

Helder Camara

#10. The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

Ben Hogan

#11. The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: when his store of whiskey was gone, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was going to blow his brains out.

Dan Simmons

#12. I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.

Mary Oliver

#13. 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

#14. The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and clarity of your finite mind and your ability to access your infinite mind.

Frederick Lenz

#15. You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth, and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there.

Tom Weston-Jones

#16. I have made new friends and have many new people that I know. But hey, you will always be a special part of my heart because no one has been able to replace the space you left in it.

Stephen Lobo

#17. 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

#18. Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Jesus Christ

#19. It's hard to hear others when your own words overwhelm your thoughts.

Heather Lyons

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

Helder Camara

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

Helder Camara

#22. He slid the photo out and raised it. The sun washed out any distinguishable characteristics. All except her eyes. He didn't need a picture to remember those. As turquoise as the waters near Cozumel, and just as warm.

Kelly Moran

#23. 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

#24. The first is gentleness; the second is economy; and the third is shrinking from taking precedence of others.

Lao-Tzu