Adrienne von Speyr Quotes

The Son gives the word back to the Trinity by giving everything he has back to the Father in the Spirit. Then, after the Father has received it again, it is distributed to mankind by means of that extravagant expansioning-the Eucharist and the Holy Spirit.
ADRIENNE VON SPEYR

Distributed Eucharist Everything Expansioning Extravagant Father Holy Mankind Son Spirit Trinity Word
He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not.
ADRIENNE VON SPEYR

Bring Convey Know Promise Speak
When she pronounces the words: ‘Be it done to me according to thy word’, the Mother conceives the mystery from the Trinity, in order to give it to the Son.
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According Conceive Mystery Pronounce Son Trinty Word
When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity.
ADRIENNE VON SPEYR

Company Cross Echoe Eternity Father Good Kingdom Paradise Pointing Promise Son Thief
To remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.
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Constantly Embrace Eternity Ramain View
Christian love means two things at once: to recognize the Lord in one’s neighbor and to recognize one’s neighbor in the Lord.
ADRIENNE VON SPEYR

Christian Lord Mean Neighbour Once Recognize Thing Two
Her [Mary’s] motherhood extends beyond view. In the will of the Son, she becomes at once mother and maid: sheltering him, but sheltered in him, forming him, but formed by him …
ADRIENNE VON SPEYR

Extend Father Forming Maid Mean Mother Motherhood Sheltered Son View
The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.
ADRIENNE VON SPEYR

Awaken Designed Eternal New Sense Use Word
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
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Attempt Firsts Learning Step Them Understand
However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content.
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Brief Close Content Eternal Folowfer Infinite Permanent Throughout
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.
ADRIENNE VON SPEYR

Constantly Course Faith Inspiration Order Pass Right Seek Succession Through Vanish Year

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