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
religious self order
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.
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.
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.
men giving desire
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.
trouble crosses
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
soul may shelter
The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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.
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.
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.