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
Edith Stein quotes about
prayer mean soul
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'.
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.
sleep men night
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
profession
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
regret heart catholic
Learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve Him with a wholly pure and detached heart. Then, like her, you will be able to say 'I do not regret that I have given myself up to Love'.
needs catholic-saint catholicism
The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
unity abstract concrete
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.
heart holy-eucharist names
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
self body impossible
An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.
needs helping
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help...
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.
girl years jewish-religion
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.
prayer catholic longing
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
order dear-ones catholic
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.