One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
EDITH STEINUsually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
More Edith Stein Quotes
-
-
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 -
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
EDITH STEIN -
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 -
Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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 -
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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 -
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
EDITH STEIN -
Those who remain silent are responsible.
EDITH STEIN -
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
EDITH STEIN -
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.
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 -
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 STEIN -
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN -
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
EDITH STEIN







