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 o…

- Edith Stein

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

- Edith Stein

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…

- Edith Stein

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

- Edith Stein

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 t…

- Edith Stein

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

- Edith Stein

If you learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve him with a wholly pure and detached heart, then you can join with your whole soul in…

- Edith Stein

When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

- Edith Stein

The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

- Edith Stein