Robert Sarah Quotes

The source of the inner life: adoration of Jesus Christ, God made man, because we know and believe that in Him is the only true God, and therefore we kneel and prostrate ourselves before the Holy Eucharist.

(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.

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 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...

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.

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.

I don't know who, in the space of three months of taking power, led you to make two decisions of enormous gravity that have reopened great wounds in the hearts of many Guineans.

Baptized persons have the duty to believe not only with their heart but also with their intellect.

No prophet ever encountered God without withdrawing into solitude and silence. Moses, Elijah, and John the Baptist encountered God in the great silence of the desert. Today, too, monks seek God in solitude and silence. I am speaking, not just about geographical solitude or movement, but about an interior state. It is not enough to be quiet, either. It is necessary to become silence. For, even before the desert, the solitude and the silence, God is already in man. The true desert is within us, in our soul. Strengthened with this knowledge, we can understand how silence is indispensable if we are to find God. The Father waits for his children in their own hearts.

Many expect, as something normal, that God should pour out his mercy on them while they remain in sin...

Sin blurs man's face. Now Christ came not only to save mankind but also to repair what sin had broken, to snatch man away from everything that disfigures him, so as to restore to human destiny all its breadth and fulfillment.

After his encounter with Jesus, a real Christian changes his conduct.

Africa could become the spearhead of the Church in its opposition to Western decadence

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.

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