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 STEINAs 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.
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 -
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
EDITH STEIN -
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.
EDITH STEIN -
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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 -
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEIN -
Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day’s work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.
EDITH STEIN -
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN -
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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 -
Those who remain silent are responsible.
EDITH STEIN -
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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 -
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
EDITH STEIN