“Love and anger are a single fire of the Spirit.”

— Constantin Brunner

Source: Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921), p. 169
Context: Great, strong, spiritual love — which is always at the same time a genuine, unsentimental love of man — cannot be without wrath. … Anger can no more be separated from love than flame and heat can from fire. Love and anger are a single fire of the Spirit.

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