Edith Stein Quotes

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see realized; therefore they want to set up a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from selfishness, but each one 'from love.' Love is to rule.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.

The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.

Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.

Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

God is love, and love is love.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.