“God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.”

“How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.”

“That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.”

“The Prophets, too, among us come to teach,Are one with those who from the pulpit preach;They pray, and slay, and pass away,and yet Our ills are as the pebbles on the beach.Mohammed or Messiah! Hear thou me,The truth entire nor here nor there can be;How should our God who made the sun and the moonGive all his light to One, I cannot see.”

“The core of liberation theology is profoundly "theologal" - that is, rooted in the very nature of God. You see, there's an immediate relationship between God, oppression, liberation: God is in the poor who cry out. And God is the one who listens to the cry and liberates, so that the poor no longer need to cry out. ( Leonardo Boff, p. 166)”

“There always seem to be very rich people, no matter how poor the country,” Thenoclon said.”