Edith Stein

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

— Edith Stein

One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is…

— Edith Stein

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

— Edith Stein

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it…

— Edith Stein

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy…

— Edith Stein

The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.

— Edith Stein

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her…

— Edith Stein

Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity…

— Edith Stein

The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting…

— Edith Stein

I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again…

— Edith Stein

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

— Edith Stein

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction…

— Edith Stein

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

— Edith Stein

When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

— Edith Stein

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

— Edith Stein

We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for…

— Edith Stein

And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you…

— Edith Stein

“You can be at all fronts, wherever there is grief, in the power of the cross. Your compassionate love takes you everywhere,…

— Edith Stein

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because…

— Edith Stein

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help...

— Edith Stein

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner.…

— Edith Stein

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

— Edith Stein

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the…

— Edith Stein

The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak…

— Edith Stein

Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day's work that he charges you…

— Edith Stein