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Edith Stein Quotes on Love

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

Quotes

  • Attributed to Edith Stein:

    “Empathy is the experience of foreign consciousness in general.”

  • Attributed to Edith Stein:

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

  • Attributed to Edith Stein:

    “The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must go out of oneself.”

  • “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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  • “The deepest feminine yearning is to achieve a loving union which, in its development, validates this maturation and simultaneously stimulates and furthers the desire for perfection in others.”

    Spirituality of the Christian Woman(1932)

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