The Scandal of Redemption Quotes

“These people thought that the church was meddling in politics and other areas where she had no business. Now they have finally understood that we are simply preaching the kingdom of God, which means pointing out sin in any human situation, even when the sin is found in political and economic situations. The church must be the voice of Christ; she must declare, “Be converted, for the kingdom of God is at hand” (Matt. 4:17).”
― Oscar Romero, The Scandal of Redemption: When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nations

“This Gospel is not only a message of personal salvation from sin and entrance into the eternal kingdom of God, but also the transformation of injustice in the present.”
― Oscar Romero, The Scandal of Redemption: When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nations

“God has loved each of you singularly, as an unrepeatable phenomenon. God has not made human beings in a mold....It was not my parents who gave me being; they were simply instruments or means that God used to give me life....Even prior to the months of my gestation, I existed in the mind of God as a project which, if brought to fulfillment, would make of me a saint because a saint is nothing else than the full realization of a life according to the design of God.”
― Oscar Romero, The Scandal of Redemption: When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nations