Jon Sobrino famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Hope is the seed of liberation.
-- Jon Sobrino

#Hope #Liberation
What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone who possesses and wields power. Jesus forces people to consider whether that deeply rooted conviction is true or not. In historical terms it is readily apparent that power, left to its own inertial tendencies, tends to be oppressive in fact. So it cannot be the ultimate meditation of God, though human beings might tend to think so
-- Jon Sobrino

#Jesus #Thinking #People
To understand the truth is to do the truth.
-- Jon Sobrino

#Truth Is
The Resurrection of Jesus is...a symbol of hope...I don't see how you can show love...without being in solidarity with the victims of this world. And if you are in solidarity with the victims, I don't see how you can avoid the cross. The theology of the cross is the theology of love in our real world.
-- Jon Sobrino

#Jesus #Real #World

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.
Hopeful men do not die so easily ...
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
To me there can be no liberation without socialism. And conversely, there can be no socialism without liberation for everybody.
I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.
If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

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