Quotes from Adrienne von Speyr

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

joy and sorrow, when they are both lived in God, signify fruitfulness for the apostolate.

Without the Lord, the disciple no longer knows who he is.

the Son is perfectly glorified by being perfectly abandoned by the Father.

The location of the servant is precisely his service. And the Lord, who is everywhere, is for the servant at the place where he will have him. In the sphere of Christ, which is an infinite sphere, a particular path of the imitation of Christ is prescribed by the will of the Lord for each individual. This imitation can extend to every area that the Lord assigns to a human being so that he may walk there.

The mystery of the child's soul is hidden completely from the parents. It belongs to God alone, to whom life belongs.

the Son's, love is greater than the sum of the world's sin and how the Father cannot resist this love and lets love reign at the judgment in place of ordinary justice.

it is the Lord's love that sends the Spirit, whose final duty is always to prepare mankind for love.

They long for shelter and do not ask about boundless horizons. Otherwise they would find themselves going with him on his explosive path.

The Lord does not simply wipe out their sorrow. He respects it; indeed, he welcomes it.

It is not as though God had no interest in our earthly concerns, but we ought to have even more interest in his.

The sending of the Holy Spirit depends on the Lord's departure.