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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.

— Adrienne von Speyr The Passion from Within (1981)

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

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

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

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

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Suffering without faith would be like love without hope.

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