Quotes from Edith Stein
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
- 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
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
- Edith Stein
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
- Edith Stein
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
In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
- 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
As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.
- Edith Stein
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
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
- Edith Stein
The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.
- Edith Stein