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.
Ernesto CardenalMy poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.
Ernesto CardenalWhat Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.
Ernesto CardenalThere is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made incarnate in the Holy Scripture Liberation theology is of course also inspired by the Word, but its representatives are convinced that God also speaks to us in everyday events and that, for example, information obtained through the mass media can be a special way in which God speaks to us.
Ernesto Cardenal