Cristóvão Ferreira Quotes

We were taught to love those who scorned us.

There’s a saying here. Mountains and rivers can be moved, but man’s nature cannot be moved.

I prayed too, Rodrigues. It doesn’t help. Go on, pray. But pray with your eyes open.

You see Jesus in Gethsemane and believe your trial is the same as His. Those five in the pit are suffering too, just like Jesus, but they don’t have your pride. They would never compare themselves to Jesus. Do you have the right to make them suffer? I heard the cries of suffering in this same cell. And I acted.[to Rodrigues]