5 Quotes by Adrienne von Speyr

Christian love means two things at once: to recognize the Lord in one's neighbor and to recognize one's neighbor in the Lord.

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

And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.

Christian love means two things at once: to recognize the Lord in one’s neighbor and to recognize one’s neighbor in the Lord.

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