Top 25 Quotes by Edith Stein of 37 - Page 2

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

Soul, Should, Compulsion

Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.34, ICS Publications

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

Healthy, Needs, Able

Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.10, ICS Publications

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

Edith Stein

Self, Body, Impossible

Edith Stein (1989). “On the Problem of Empathy: The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 3”, p.47, ICS Publications

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.

Edith Stein

Unity, Abstract, Concrete

Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.11, ICS Publications

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.

Edith Stein

Needs, Helping

Saint Edith Stein (1987). “Essays on woman”

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

Edith Stein

Waiting, Heaven, Energy

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

Character, Men, Soul

Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.63, ICS Publications

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Edith Stein

Profession

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

Prayer, Mean, 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.

Edith Stein

Order, Dear Ones, Catholic