“Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person—to say nothing of one's neighbor!—as God loves him.”
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) Swiss doctor and mystic
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 15
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 80.
“Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person—to say nothing of one's neighbor!—as God loves him.”
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) Swiss doctor and mystic
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 15
Bartolomé de las Casas (1474–1566) Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer
Source: In Defense of the Indians (1548), p. 39
“Personalities don’t love—they want something.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community