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Quotes from The Passion from Within — Adrienne von Speyr

d. 1967 Switzerland

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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)

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.