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 STEINEach 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.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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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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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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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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Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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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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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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