“There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.” MenHumansHuman BeingsAbuseTortureOutrageDichotomy Author:Oscar Romero
“We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance.” IfsThinkingHumansWarEnoughMomentsPainGraceCircumstancesBlessedSavedNarrativeDescriptionCatastropheAdequateSequenceOutrageInexplicable Book:Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World Source: Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World
“To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.” HumansEndsReasonHumanityHuman BeingsHuman LifeRopeOutrageDegradationSanctityCapital PunishmentGallowsSanctity Of Human Life Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought