Rizal Moral Legacies

 Why we need to Rizal Moral Legacies.

The lasting reputation of Rizal lies on the prosperity of his ideas and the nobility of his examples. The
strength of his progressive opinion and soul – searching teachings is his legacy to humanity.

I. Love of God

 “I Believe in the Existence of a Creator” Rizal’s first admirable virtue and example was
his love and faith in God. - RIZALS LIFE, WORKS & WRITINGS: THEIR IMPACT ON YOUR
NATIONAL IDENTITY, AUTHOR DIOSDADO CAPINO, MA. MINERVA A. GONZALES.
FILIPINAS E. PINEDA.
 We have been born . . . in the midst of a society whose political life is so anomalous
that we have no other hope but to submit or succumb: Whichever is preferable,
conscience will decide. Let us then trust in God and in the sincerity of our intention.
When he was studying in Madrid, Spain (1882-1885), Rizal assured his mother of his
trust in God - RIZALS LIFE, WORKS & WRITINGS: THEIR IMPACT ON YOUR NATIONAL
IDENTITY, AUTHOR DIOSDADO CAPINO, MA. MINERVA A. GONZALES. FILIPINAS E.
PINEDA.
 When his sister Olympia died after childbirth upon his arrival to the Philippines from
Europe in August 1887, Rizal remarked: “I console myself saying that it was the will of
God and what He does must be the best.” Before parting, Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt
gave him a letters of recommendation so that he might not find difficulties upon his
return to the Philippines: “I thank you and happen what may, I trust in God.” - RIZALS
LIFE, WORKS & WRITINGS: THEIR IMPACT ON YOUR NATIONAL IDENTITY, AUTHOR
DIOSDADO CAPINO, MA. MINERVA A. GONZALES. FILIPINAS E. PINEDA.
 In July 1892, he was exiled to Dapitan. Before leaving Fort Santiago he wrote to his

parents placing his destiny in the hands of God. I am leaving this evening (July 14,
1892) or tomorrow for Dapitan where I am being banished. I gladly know that the
General grants you freedom, and because I believe that wherever I might go I should
always be in the hands of God who holds in them the destinies of men. - RIZALS LIFE,
WORKS & WRITINGS: THEIR IMPACT ON YOUR NATIONAL IDENTITY, AUTHOR DIOSDADO
CAPINO, MA. MINERVA A. GONZALES. FILIPINAS E. PINEDA.
 During his exile, Rizal regularly attended mass in the Dapitan church because he never

lost faith in God. Once he wrote his sister: Tell everybody to have confidence in me
and not to take me always for a child who has to be guided in everything, in what he
must like and in what he must not like. If my family has no confidence in me and
always treats me like a child, how will others treat me and what confidence will they
have in my good judgment? I’m in the hands of God and until the present I have no
reason to say that He has abandoned me. - RIZALS LIFE, WORKS & WRITINGS: THEIR
IMPACT ON YOUR NATIONAL IDENTITY, AUTHOR DIOSDADO CAPINO, MA. MINERVA A.
GONZALES. FILIPINAS E. PINEDA.
 In his struggle for his country’s freedom, Rizal called on his countrymen to place their
confidence in God. God made man free and promised victory to one who perseveres, to
 one who struggles, to one who acts justly. God has promised man his redemption
after the sacrifice. Let man fulfill his duties and God will fulfill His. - RIZALS LIFE, WORKS
& WRITINGS: THEIR IMPACT ON YOUR NATIONAL IDENTITY, AUTHOR DIOSDADO
CAPINO, MA. MINERVA A. GONZALES. FILIPINAS E. PINEDA.

II. Rizal Point View

He preferred to see God in a more practical and realistic view rather than believing for the sake
of faith. Basically, he derived his belief through Reason and Necessity, not through Faith.