Edith Stein Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

  Edith Stein

  Love, Christian, Mean

• 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.

  Edith Stein

  Flames, Order, Wind

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

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

  Edith Stein

  Soul, Shelter, May

• 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 body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.

  Edith Stein

  Character, Men, Soul

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.63, ICS Publications

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

  Edith Stein

  Soul, Should, Compulsion

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

• 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.

  Edith Stein

  Prayer, Heart, Soul

• Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

  Edith Stein

  Prayer, Mean, Catholic

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin