Nothing ever held back Edith Stein, and she broke gender stereotypes in her time to achieve all her dreams.
Edith Stein has inspired many women and stood for their rights through her writings. Besides this, after joining the Catholic Church, she has become a source of inspiration for many saints, like Saint Pope John Paul II.
He even said that she had to face difficulties in such a radically changing century, especially during her times. Edith Stein's quotes are inspiring and make one believe in themselves.
This applies to women, as she has always made them stand at the forefront. She also lived her life according to her rules; today, we will learn how to do the same. Let's go!
Famous Quotes By Edith Sein
These quotes by Edith Stein have been famous for eternity. Let's read them!
"Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love is it lacks the truth. One without the other is a destructive lie."
"'Can we truly know other people, particularly the way that they feel?' Her answer is, 'Yes,' because the nature of the human soul itself, the reason it exists, is to find itself in relationship with other souls.'"
- Edith Stein, 'Fundamental Principles in Women's Education'.
"Intellect is the light which illuminates its path, and without this light, emotion changes back and forth."
"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."
"Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help..."
"To be a mother is to nourish and protect true humanity and bring it to development."
- Edith Stein, 'The Significance of Women's Intrinsic Value in National Life'.
Quotes About Women By Edith Sein
Edith Stein stressed women's rights matter a lot, and this was stressed endlessly. Let us see how!
(Edith Stein has always voiced out for women's rights throughout her life)
"[Women] comprehend not merely with the intellect but also with the heart."
"Every profession in which woman's soul comes into its own and which can be formed by woman's soul is an authentic woman's profession."
- Edith Stein, 'The Ethos of Woman's Professions', 1930.
"The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold."
"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, 'Spirituality of the Christian Woman'.
"The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are."
"There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman."
"Only the person blinded by the passion of controversy could deny that woman in soul and body is created for a particular purpose… woman is destined to be wife and mother. Both physically and spiritually, she is endowed for this purpose."
- Edith Stein, 'The Ethos of Woman's Professions', 1930.
"If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him."
"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, 'The Ethos of Women's Professions', 1930.
"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, 'Fundamental Principles of Women's Education'.
Quotes On Spiritualism By Edith Sein
Being a Catholic professor, Edith Stein had her own set of theories. Today, we will learn some of those ideas!
"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."
"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."
"So he writes for contemplative souls, and at a very particular point along their way he wants to take them by the hand, at a crossroad where most halt, perplexed, not knowing how to proceed."
- Edith Stein, 'The Science Of The Cross'.
"Previously, perhaps using an Ignatian method, one has exercised the spiritual powers in the hours of meditation—the senses, imagination, understanding, the will."
"When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not."
"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."
"In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will."
"If the mystery of the cross becomes the inner form of this science, a living energy that allows the soul to be molded by what is received from this mystery, it turns into a science of the cross."
- Edith Stein, 'The Science Of The Cross'.
Thought-Provoking Quotes By Edith Sein
Let's read these quotes by Edith Stein, the nature of which will make you ponder!
"Let go of your plans."
"This inability may be grounded in an inborn dull-mindedness (in the literal sense), or in a general indifference developed in the course of a lifetime, or finally, in an insensitivity to certain impressions as a result of repeatedly ignoring them."
- Edith Stein, 'The Science Of The Cross'.
"Those who remain silent are responsible."
"You can be at all fronts, wherever there is grief, in the power of the cross. Your compassionate love takes you everywhere, this love from the divine heart. Its precious blood is poured everywhere, soothing, healing, saving."
- Edith Stein, 'Edith Stein: Essential Writings'.
"Appropriate environmental influences can prevent mistakes. The soul of a child is soft and impressionable. Whatever influence enters there can easily form it for a lifetime. When the facts of salvation history are introduced in early childhood and in an appropriate form, this may easily lay a foundation for a saintly life."
- Edith Stein, 'The Science Of The Cross'.
"At some point we must plunge in to discover a greater expanse; yet when this broader horizon does appear, a new depth will open up at our point of entry."
- Edith Stein, 'Potency and Act'.
