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
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Attributed to Edith Stein:
“Empathy is the experience of foreign consciousness in general.”
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Attributed to Edith Stein:
“All that comes to me from God is a sign of His love.”
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Attributed to Edith Stein:
“The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must go out of oneself.”
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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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“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)