Quotes by Edith Stein

Edith Stein (1891–1942) — Philosophin · Katholisch · Deutschland

Edith Stein (1891–1942) war eine deutsche Philosophin und Karmelitin jüdischer Herkunft, die unter anderem in Freiburg, Speyer sowie Köln wirkte und im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau ermordet wurde. Bekannt ist sie für die Verknüpfung von moderner Phänomenologie mit christlicher Scholastik sowie für ihre Schriften zur Frauen- und Bildungsphilosophie, während ihre Heiligsprechung als Märtyrerin im jüdisch-christlichen Dialog Kontroversen über die Deutung ihres Todes auslöste. Für Bibelleser verdeutlicht ihr Werk eine intellektuell fundierte Kreuzesspiritualität und die kompromisslose Bindung des Gewissens an die biblische Würde der menschlichen Person unter totalitärer Bedrohung.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Hope & Confidence, Meaning & Identity, Peace & Rest, Love, Work & Vocation, Humility & Pride

Quotes by Edith Stein

What was not in my plan lay in God's plan.
Edith Stein

Ships wreck on rocks; human relationships often wreck on mere pebbles.
Edith Stein

My first morning hour belongs to the Lord. The work he assigns me, I want to take up, and he will give me the strength to accomplish it. I take what comes and only ask that I be given the abilities needed for it.
Edith Stein

God demands nothing of people without also giving them the strength for it.
Edith Stein

Whoever seeks the truth is seeking God, whether they are aware of it or not.
Edith Stein

The darker it becomes around us, the more we must open our hearts to the light from above.
Edith Stein

God knows every human soul from eternity, with all the secrets of its being and every wave of its life.
Edith Stein

What we perceive of ourselves, even of our faults and failings, is only the illuminated surface. The depth from which they come remains largely hidden even from ourselves. God knows it and can cleanse it.
Edith Stein

You should be like a window through which God's goodness can shine into the world.
Edith Stein

I take what comes, and ask only that I be given the abilities needed for it. In any case, it is a good school of humility when one constantly has things to do that one can only accomplish very imperfectly, with great effort.
Edith Stein

I know that I have someone near me whom I can trust without reservation, and that is something that gives peace and strength.
Edith Stein

Let me walk blindly, Lord, the ways that are yours.
Edith Stein

God knows what he has planned for me. I need not worry about it.
Edith Stein

Joy is a sign that one is close to the light.
Edith Stein

The neighbor is not the one I like; it is the one who comes near to me – without exception.
Edith Stein

The Star of Bethlehem is a star in dark night – even today.
Edith Stein

No work of the spirit comes into the world without hard labor pains. It always claims the whole person.
Edith Stein

The innermost essence of love is self-giving.
Edith Stein

God's will is the safest harbor of peace.
Edith Stein

God becomes man so that people may become children of God.
Edith Stein

The more collected a person lives in the innermost depths of their soul, the stronger is the radiance that emanates from them and draws others into its spell.
Edith Stein

Only God can give himself to a person so completely that he fills that person's whole being, and yet loses nothing of himself.
Edith Stein

Each of us stands on the razor's edge between nothingness and the fullness of divine life.
Edith Stein

You cannot hold to Christ without following him.
Edith Stein

We should begin each day as if it were a new life.
Edith Stein

Sources: cdim.pl, gottes-suche.de, timesofisrael.com, americamagazine.org

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