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 STEINEnergy 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.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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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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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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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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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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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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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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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.
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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.
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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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