Mystery and Freedom

“Every Christian mystery forces us to think: It is greater than I thought.

God is not like a number that can be plugged into any random equation, and His operation cannot be worked out by mathematical means.

The soul’s life is rooted in the fact that from all eternity it has lain in God’s intention. God’s intention is trinitarian: What could be more alive? Thanks to this life, God can actualize His intention out of nothing.

What the Lord exemplifies to us are not new properties. Rather, He exemplifies properties of the Trinity in a human way.

In our voluntary solitude there is always a certain superiority. Not in His.

Every Christian renunciation, of whatever kind it may be, means saying Yes to something bigger and more authentic.

Those who wait for the Lord are sure of His presence; to prepare one’s heart for Him is already to possess Him.

In the serpent there was a will to understand everything. But the Trinity cannot be understood that way, with our will.

...freedom is not of this world; there is no freedom here. It is always just transitory, awakened by an ever-increasing thirst. And this thirst becomes intolerable by its very nature.

It is our intensifying need for God, and it contains obedience and subjection: the Eucharist calls for more Eucharist, and our supreme freedom lies in the words ‘Thy will be done.’ Will we be worthy of this perfect freedom of the children?

...Lord, do not let us live without mystery.”

~Adrienne von Speyr