Adrienne von Speyr

"To me, it was not at all disagreeable to be treated as a precious, unique being, because I belonged to God."

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

"There is an intensification of negative force at work in the apostate. He resembles a man who works swiftly and surely to erect a wall in order to make the Lord's image, which he knows exactly, disapp…"

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

"The ability to suffer and the ability to love are one."

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

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

"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."