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Edith Stein Quotes

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are Picture Quote #1

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be Picture Quote #1

My longing for truth was a single prayer Picture Quote #1

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help Picture Quote #1

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth Picture Quote #1

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman Picture Quote #1

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Those who remain silent are responsible Picture Quote #1

The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are Picture Quote #1

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one Picture Quote #1

The singular mission of the working woman is to fuse her feminine calling with her vocational calling and, by means of that fusion, to give a feminine quality to her vocational calling Picture Quote #1

The deepest feminine yearning is to achieve a loving union which, in its development, validates this maturation and simultaneously stimulates and furthers the desire for perfection in others Picture Quote #1

We are being obliged to consider the significance of woman and her existence as a problem. We cannot evade the question as to what we are and what we should be Picture Quote #1

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For a wholesome collaboration of the sexes in professional life will be possible only if both achieve a calm and objective awareness of their nature and draw practical conclusions from it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold Picture Quote #1

The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds... empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Woman’s soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it (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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are (Edith Stein Quotes) We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be (Edith Stein Quotes) My longing for truth was a single prayer (Edith Stein Quotes) Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help (Edith Stein Quotes) Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth (Edith Stein Quotes) There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman (Edith Stein Quotes) Those who remain silent are responsible (Edith Stein Quotes) The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are (Edith Stein Quotes) Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one (Edith Stein Quotes) The singular mission of the working woman is to fuse her feminine calling with her vocational calling and, by means of that fusion, to give a feminine quality to her vocational calling (Edith Stein Quotes) The deepest feminine yearning is to achieve a loving union which, in its development, validates this maturation and simultaneously stimulates and furthers the desire for perfection in others (Edith Stein Quotes) We are being obliged to consider the significance of woman and her existence as a problem. We cannot evade the question as to what we are and what we should be (Edith Stein Quotes) For a wholesome collaboration of the sexes in professional life will be possible only if both achieve a calm and objective awareness of their nature and draw practical conclusions from it (Edith Stein Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold (Edith Stein Quotes) The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds... empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call (Edith Stein Quotes) 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 (Edith Stein Quotes) Woman’s soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment (Edith Stein Quotes) 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 Quotes)