Adrienne von Speyr Quotes
-
Suffering without faith would be like love without hope.
-
The ability to suffer and the ability to love are one.
-
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
-
If there were just one possibility—either to do the good or to combat evil—man would have to opt for the first.
-
The sins of others can never become the measure of your own.
-
When we make our own calculations, we need so many numbers and factors that any mistake is possible. The Lord's calculation boils down to love.
-
Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person – to say nothing of one's neighbor! – as God loves him.
-
Christian hope is a vessel in which faith lives; love carries it.
-
There is an intensification of negative force at work in the apostate. He resembles a man who works swiftly and surely to erect a wall in order to make the Lord's image, which he knows exactly, disappear and become unrecognizable behind it.
-
Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.
-
Once a scientific question is settled, it remains interesting and alive only if it draws attention to new questions; every conclusion is meant as a transition to a new beginning.
-
Only faith can keep what hope promises.