Edith Stein
Edith Stein
Edith Stein, also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, OCD, was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to the Roman Catholic Church and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. She is a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth12 October 1891
CountryGermany
self body impossible
An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.
character men soul
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.
spiritual mean love-is
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.
trouble crosses
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
religious light order
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.
soul may shelter
The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
carrying certain consist cross jewish knew lord name placed understand willingly
I told our Lord that I knew it was His cross that was now being placed upon the Jewish people; that most of them did not understand this, but that those who did would have to take it up willingly in the name of all. I would do that. At the end of the service, I was certain that I had been heard. But what this carrying of the cross was to consist in, that I did not yet know.
night hands looks
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.
needs world
The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.
letting-go morning giving
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.
realizing
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
accepting
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
hands
Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.
flames order wind
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.