Adrienne von Speyr: Quotes about faith

Adrienne von Speyr was Swiss doctor and mystic. Explore interesting quotes on faith.
Adrienne von Speyr: 48 quotes3 likes

“Suffering without faith would be like love without hope.”

Adrienne von Speyr

Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 45

“Only faith can keep what hope promises.”

Adrienne von Speyr

Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 17

“[About Edith Stein] I see her groping, wonder-filled prayer, which in the beginning resembles a conversation she is conducting with herself and is very managed. It is half like a question she puts to herself without knowing exactly what she means; it may be that the step she takes does not need to be completed by her; the question does not need to be perfectly articulated; perhaps God would be able to intervene in the middle of her step, in order to make his presence known and answer her question in a much more profound way than she herself would have expected or even would have been capable of expecting. And God truly answers. She prays more and more and finally receives a victorious certainty and rejoices. From this moment of victorious certainty on, everything is perfectly simple and unambiguous. She will follow the path God shows to her; she belongs to him; she has rediscovered her childlike cheerfulness, which has increased and become clearly manifest through love and faith.”

Adrienne von Speyr

Book of All Saints (1966)

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

Adrienne von Speyr

Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 17