Von Speyr Quotes

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

Adrienne Von Speyr

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

Adrienne Von Speyr

#3. Is Obama satanic?" he asked me. I was grateful for the conversation starter - I consider anything that staves off social awkwardness to be a blessing - but I couldn't lie.

Jon Ronson

#4. The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.

Ayn Rand

#5. In an ideal world, I'd like to carry on acting, but I don't want it to interfere with my studies.

Ellie Kendrick

#6. 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.

Adrienne Von Speyr

#7. So just because I gave the right name to a bit of colored cloth you conclude that I'm not mad.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

Georg Solti

#9. Beirut is where I was born and raised.

Reem Acra

#10. 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