Robert Sarah Quotes

All human life is a struggle against the shackles of evil, against the slavery of sin, in order to regain true freedom.

It is true, Archbishop Tchidimbo was very strict, intensely upright, and endlessly demanding. He used to come visit us at the minor seminary in Kindia. I remember that he insisted on the importance of spiritual qualities, and especially good character, moral integrity, and honesty. I can still hear him thunder to the class: "The first reason to expel a seminarian is for duplicity, the second, for duplicity, and the third, for duplicity."

At the heart of man there is an innate silence, for God abides in the innermost part of every person.

Unfortunately, it is easier to destroy a country than to re-build it.

When he drapes himself in silence, as God himself dwells in a great silence, man is close to heaven, or, rather, he allows God to manifest himself in him.

On the question of marriage, there is a gulf between some people and the Church. The question, therefore, becomes quite simple: Must the world change its attitude, or must the Church change her fidelity to God?

God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith (Ignatius Press; Sew edition (September 1, 2015)) by Cardinal Robert Sarah (Author), Nicolas Diat (Author)

Two millennia ago, the apostles followed Christ. They left everything, and their lives were never again the same. The path taken by the apostles is still a model today.

The Holy Spirit is the One Who, through the imposition of hands and the anointing of the sacred chrism during Confirmation, clothes the Christian with divine strength and makes him become the fragrance of Christ in every place.

(About the gender ideology) As far as my continent is concerned, I want to strongly denounce a desire to impose false values using political and financial arguments. In some African countries, ministries dedicated to gender theory have been created in exchange for financial support! These policies are all the more odious because the majority of African populations are defenceless, at the mercy of fanatical western ideologues.

On that September morning I spent more than an hour with John Paul II. During the meal he asked me my age. I told him that I was thirty-four years old. He then let out a great burst of laughter and exclaimed: "But then you are a baby bishop! Un vescovo Bambino!" There was no arguing with that; I was at that time the youngest bishop in the world...

We all must march to the same drum as Christ. The Church is reformed when the baptized march more resolutely toward holiness, allowing themselves to be recreated in the likeness of God by the power of the Holy Spirit.

We bishops ought to tremble at the thought of our guilty silences, our complicit silences, our over-indulgent silences in dealing with the world.

(On the necessity of priestly celibacy) The conjugal state concerns man in his entirety, and since serving the Lord requires all the resources of a person, it does not seem possible for the two vocations to be realised simultaneously.

The idea that would enclose the Magisterium in a beautiful casket, detaching it from pastoral practice that might evolve according to circumstances, fashions and passions, is a form of heresy, a dangerous schizophrenic pathology. I therefore solemnly affirm that the Church of Africa will firmly oppose any rebellion against the teaching of Jesus and the Magisterium.