Norberto Alcover, journalist and professor at the University of Comillas, 2003.
"Pedro Poveda became part of my life in an unavoidable manner, in a way that, being myself very Ignatian, I discovered in this man from Linares, Guadix and Madrid the most accomplished benchmark of the evangelical ‘being in the world without being the world,’ understanding the mundane as dominant selfishness.
José Manuel Sánchez Caro, Rector of the Pontifical University of Salamanca, 1993.
"Salt and light that always come together in the works of Poveda as harmony between knowledge and faith. For him, those women who for the first time came close to the University, who would open to Education and other disciplines, should cultivate knowledge.
Paul Grieger, Professor at the Lateran University, speech given in Barcelona, 1974.
"Today's man is not threatened by the ‘lack of knowledge’ but by the ‘lack of awareness.’ One needs to communicate and live with people who" have" the truth that liberates.
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Paul Poupard, Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris in 1974, on the centenary of the birth of Pedro Poveda.
"Our humanism becomes Christianity, our Christianity becomes centered on God; in such sort that we may say, to put it differently: a knowledge of man is a prerequisite for a knowledge of God. (Paul VI).