Adrienne von Speyr: Quotes about love

Adrienne von Speyr was Swiss doctor and mystic. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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

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

Adrienne von Speyr

Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 20

“[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)

“The ability to suffer and the ability to love are one.”

Adrienne von Speyr

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

“When we make our own calculations, we need so many numbers and factors that any mistake is possible. The Lord's calculation boils down to love.”

Adrienne von Speyr

Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 15

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

Adrienne von Speyr

Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 15

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

Adrienne von Speyr

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

“The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.”

Adrienne von Speyr

Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 16