Pedro Arrupe Inspirational Quotes (7)

In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.

More than ever I find myself in the hands of God. This (illness) is what I have wanted all my life from my youth. But now there is a difference the initiative is entirely with God. It is indeed a profound spiritual experience to know and feel myself so totally in God’s hands.

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way.

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Nowadays are the world doesn't need words, but lives which cannot be explained except through faith & love for Christ's poor

One of man's basic concerns is a house - a place to find protection from the rain and elements. But a house can be much more than a building. It is the social context of his family life -\-\ the place where he loves and shares with this closest to him.