I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern whether they say this for tactical reasons, so as not to be compromised politically or whether they are really convinced that Marxism doesn't influence them in any way. I personally think that it is not possible to evade the influence of Marxism, as we cannot commit ourselves to the revolutionary struggle without drawing support from the conclusions of scientific socialism.