Adrienne von Speyr Quotes

d. 1967 Switzerland

Adrienne von Speyr (20 September 1902 – 17 September 1967) was a Swiss Catholic medical doctor, the author of over 60 books of spirituality and theology, and a mystic.

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Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person—to say nothing of one's neighbor!—as God loves him.

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

If there were just one possibility—either to do the good or to combat evil—man would have to opt for the first.

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

Christian hope is a vessel in which faith lives; love carries it.

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

Suffering without faith would be like love without hope.

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

The sins of others can never become the measure of your own.

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

The ability to suffer and the ability to love are one.

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

To me, it was not at all disagreeable to be treated as a precious, unique being, because I belonged to God.

There is already so much grace in a Christian body. Can you imagine how much grace there is in a soul?

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

When we sin, we think we are geniuses; when we confess, we know we are idiots.

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

The Lord gives his whole innocent spirit to the Father and keeps only our own sinful spirit back for himself. In this way he can carry sin as if he himself had committed it.

The Passion from Within (1981)

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.

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

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.

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

Only faith can keep what hope promises.

Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

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.

The Passion from Within (1981)

If there had been no Judas, Peter would be the great betrayer. It is only because he stands in the framework of a still greater betrayal that we find a thousand excuses for him and for the faults of the Church continuing and occurring over and over again.

The Passion from Within (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adrienne von Speyr (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.