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 More Quotes by Edith Stein More Quotes From 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 soul prayer heart 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 able healthy needs If you learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve him with a wholly pure and detached heart, then you can join with your whole soul in singing the jubilant song of the holy Virgin, “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. For he has done great things for me, and holy is his name.” And like little St. Thérèse you will be able to say at the end, “I do not regret that I have given myself to love.” Edith Stein catholic regret heart My longing for truth was a single prayer. Edith Stein longing catholic prayer We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be. Edith Stein compulsion soul should 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 soul character men An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible. Edith Stein body self impossible 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 holy-eucharist names heart Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone. Edith Stein dear-ones catholic order There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman. Edith Stein profession Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help. Edith Stein helping needs 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 christian love mean The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are. Edith Stein christian-inspirational catholic needs I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God. Edith Stein jewish-religion girl years 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'. Edith Stein catholic prayer mean Who can sleep on the night that God became man? Edith Stein sleep men night If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him. Edith Stein lead him me want Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact. Edith Stein woman wife mother relationship All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself? Edith Stein present more own experience This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed. Edith Stein face cry serious earth
