Robert Sarah

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

"The West no longer knows who it is, because it no longer knows and does not want to know who made it, who established it, as it was and as it is. The West refuses to acknowledge its Christian roots. By losing its faith, Europe has also lost its reason to be. It is experiencing a lethal decline and is becoming a new civilization, one that is cut off from its Christian roots."

"All migrants who arrive in Europe are penniless, without work, without dignity. This is what the Church wants? The Church cannot cooperate with this new form of slavery that has become mass migration."

"Distraction is the devil’s tool for cutting man off from God."

"The Church is not a human organization. She is not subject to the fashions of the day or the winds of doctrine. She must be faithful to Christ."

"In my life, God has done everything; all I have wanted to do is pray. I am sure that the red of my cardinalate is truly a reflection of the blood of the suffering of the missionaries."

"(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."

"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 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."

"(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."

"Spiritual crisis of faith"

"(About ordination of women) [No one] “has the power to transform this divine gift to adapt it and reduce its transcendent value to the cultural and environmental field. No council, no synod, no ecclesiastical authority has the power to invent a female priesthood… without seriously damaging the perennial physiognomy of the priest, his sacramental identity, within the renewed ecclesiological vision of the Church, mystery, communion and mission. The Catholic faith professes that the sacrament of holy orders, instituted by Christ the Lord, is one; it is identical for the universal Church. For Jesus, there is no African, German, Amazonia, or European priesthood."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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.""

"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."

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

"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?"

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"Mass is the salvific sacrifice, not a fraternal meal."

"The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise (Ignatius Press; Paperback edition (April 15, 2017)) by Cardinal Robert Sarah (Author), Nicolas Diat (Author)"

"Gender ideology is a Luciferian refusal to receive a sexual nature from God."