Edith Stein

“Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love, and do not accept anything as love if it lacks truth.”

“The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.”

“Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God.”

“God is there in these moments of rest and can give us in a single instant exactly what we need.”

“One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.”

“Whatever was not planned by me, was planned by a greater wisdom.”

“My longing for truth was a single prayer.”

“Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether consciously or unconsciously.”

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

“Our love of our neighbor is the measure of our love of God.”

“To be a child of God, that means to be led by the Hand of God, to do the Will of God, not one's own will.”

“In the heart of Jesus, which was pierced, the kingdom of heaven and the land of earth are bound together.”

“The desire for truth is the desire for the living God.”

“Ave Crux, Spes Unica. (Hail to the Cross, Our Only Hope.)”

“The deepest womanly desire is to be a space for others.”

“Every woman who is not called to the special vocation of motherhood is called to a spiritual motherhood.”