All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself? Edith Stein More Quotes by Edith Stein More Quotes From Edith Stein And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him. Edith Stein god night hands 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 letting-go morning giving The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are. Edith Stein world needs When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not. Edith Stein christian-inspirational christian knows 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 flames wind order Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth. Edith Stein accepting Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him. Edith Stein hands The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold. Edith Stein shelter soul may Those who remain silent are responsible. Edith Stein silent responsible 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 spirituality order world One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross. Edith Stein chosen crosses desire 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 women cherish growth 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 light religious order Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one. Edith Stein trouble crosses Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it. Edith Stein realizing 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 religious self order 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 desire giving men 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. Edith Stein oneness diversity broken 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 spiritual love-is mean 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 concrete unity abstract
