Quotemeal: Jul. 31st, 1949

Sunday, July 31, 1949

"We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own."
— Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador

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Illustration of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador — "We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own."

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