The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
EDITH STEINThe woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
EDITH STEINUsually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
EDITH STEINMy longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEINThe 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 STEINWoman 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 STEINAnyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
EDITH STEINAn ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEINWe 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 STEINThere is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
EDITH STEINEverything 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 STEINThe world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
EDITH STEINEach 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 STEINWhen you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
EDITH STEINEverywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
EDITH STEINThose 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.
EDITH STEINThose who remain silent are responsible.
EDITH STEIN