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Edith Stein Quotes on Life

Edith Stein was a German philosopher, phenomenologist, and Carmelite nun. This page collects quotes attributed to Edith Stein on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Edith Stein:

    “All that comes to me from God is a sign of His love.”

  • Attributed to Edith Stein:

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

  • “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.”

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  • “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 order to make room for God's life.”

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