Edith Stein Quotes

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• The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine Will; sets the…
• On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an…
• The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
• When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
• 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 end…
• Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the…
• We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a…
• Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or…
• Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day's work that he charges you with, and he…
• 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 had…
• 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 appear…
• Those who remain silent are responsible.
• There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
• Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
• Learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve Him with a wholly pure and detached heart. Then, like her, you will be…
• Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
• Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help...
• The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.
• The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be…
• One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

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