Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
EDITH STEINMy longing for truth was a single prayer.
More Edith Stein Quotes
-
-
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
EDITH STEIN -
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
EDITH STEIN -
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEIN -
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
EDITH STEIN -
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
EDITH STEIN -
The 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 STEIN -
Those who remain silent are responsible.
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 -
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 -
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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 -
Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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 -
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 -
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN