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

— 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)

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)

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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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