There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
EDITH STEINWe will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
More Edith Stein Quotes
-
-
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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 -
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.
EDITH STEIN -
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
EDITH STEIN -
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 -
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
EDITH STEIN -
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
EDITH STEIN -
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEIN -
One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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 -
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 -
Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
EDITH STEIN -
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
EDITH STEIN -
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN







