Arrupe Quotes

#1. To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

Maimonides

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

Pedro Arrupe

#3. 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.

Pedro Arrupe

#4. I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does.

Stephen Colbert

#5. EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain.

Ellen Malcolm

#6. They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.

Will Rogers

#7. In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#8. Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

Francis Arinze

#9. You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Mariah Carey

#10. 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.

Pedro Arrupe

#11. Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.

Geneen Roth

#12. He'd read once that in everyone's life there was somebody who touched a spot so deep, so precious, that the mind always retreated, in time of need, to that cherished place, seeking comfort within memories that never seemed to disappoint.

Steve Berry

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

Pedro Arrupe

#14. Good-bye, she murmured, bidding farewell not so much to the apartment as to the self that had lived here.

Haruki Murakami

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

Pedro Arrupe