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

— Adrienne von Speyr Lumina and New Lumina (1969)

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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)

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)

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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