Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
EDITH STEINAn ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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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.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul ‘prays in us with unspeakable groanings’.
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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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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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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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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.
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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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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.
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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.
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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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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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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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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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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.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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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.
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Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God’s infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.
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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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