And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory,… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him. — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be. — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
