Edith Stein Quotes

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

  Edith Stein

  God, Night, Hands

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

  Edith Stein

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Knows

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

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  Needs, World

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• 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 will give you the power to accomplish it.

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  Letting Go, Morning, Giving

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• Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

  Edith Stein

  Accepting

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

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  Hands

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• Those who remain silent are responsible.

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  Silent, Responsible

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• The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

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  Soul, Shelter, May

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• the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

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  Order, World, Spirituality

  Edith Stein (2016). “Self-Portrait In Letters, 1916-1942 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 5)”, p.83, ICS Publications

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• 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 extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds... empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.

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  Flames, Order, Wind

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.86, ICS Publications

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

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  Desire, Crosses, Chosen

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

  Edith Stein

  Realizing

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• Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

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  Trouble, Crosses

  Edith Stein (2016). “Self-Portrait In Letters, 1916-1942 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 5)”, p.283, ICS Publications

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

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  Women, Growth, Cherish

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.8, ICS Publications

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• 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 to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.

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  Oneness, Broken, Diversity

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• 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 in a worldly profession.

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  Religious, Light, Order

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.53, ICS Publications

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• 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 one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

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  Religious, Self, Order

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.12, ICS Publications

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• 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 end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

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• 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 natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.

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  Men, Giving, Desire

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.57, ICS Publications

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• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

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  Prayer, Heart, Soul

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• My longing for truth was a single prayer.

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  Prayer, Catholic, Longing

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• An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

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  Self, Body, Impossible

  Edith Stein (1989). “On the Problem of Empathy: The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 3”, p.47, ICS Publications

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• If you learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve him with a wholly pure and detached heart, then you can join with your whole soul in singing the jubilant song of the holy Virgin, “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. For he has done great things for me, and holy is his name.” And like little St. Thérèse you will be able to say at the end, “I do not regret that I have given myself to love.”

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  Regret, Heart, Catholic

  "The Hidden Life: Hagiographic Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Texts".

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• The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

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  Christian Inspirational, Catholic, Needs

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

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  Soul, Should, Compulsion

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.34, ICS Publications

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