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

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

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

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

- Edith Stein

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

- Edith Stein

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

- Edith Stein

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

- Edith Stein

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

- Edith Stein