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.
EDITH STEINThe 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.
More Edith Stein Quotes
-
-
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.
EDITH STEIN -
Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.
EDITH STEIN -
Those who remain silent are responsible.
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 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 -
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
EDITH STEIN -
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
EDITH STEIN -
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN -
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 Kingdom of God within us; gives us pure lips, and a pure heart with which to glorify his holy name.
EDITH STEIN -
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
EDITH STEIN -
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.
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 with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.
EDITH STEIN -
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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 love, to end one’s own life in order to make room for God’s life.
EDITH STEIN -
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
EDITH STEIN