Faith never comes into being without love and cannot exist without love; at most it could be a dead relic in sin. In contrast to this, love can be the beginning of something even without faith, for love always contains the seed of insight, even though one may not yet know what the seed contains.

—Adrienne von Speyr

from her book, Water and Spirit

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THE FRUIT OF PRAYER

Following up her book, The Word, Von Speyr reflects deeply on the text of St. John’s Gospel, taking it sentence by sentence. The meditations are confluent with the scenes and themes of the Gospel itself, and perhaps the most characteristic note of her meditations is determined by the author’s use of the whole imagery of St. John to convey his thought.

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