All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself? Edith Stein Read Quote
During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will. Edith Stein Read Quote
The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so extensive that in it, to a certain degree, all partialities balance out and work together. Edith Stein Read Quote
Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that ‘self-recognition.’ Edith Stein Read Quote
A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community’s special character. Edith Stein Read Quote
The emotions have been seen as the center of woman’s soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman’s formation. Edith Stein Read Quote
Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into her group, and the children will perceive that He is present and that He assists in their work; thus, He will take possession of their souls. Edith Stein Read Quote
In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will. Edith Stein Read Quote
The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state – be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state. Edith Stein Read Quote
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone. Edith Stein Read Quote
