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

— 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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