Edith Stein Quotes

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.

What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings.

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

I'm just, like, really about not lying to myself.

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

Honesty, vulnerability, pain - these are things that always supersede the trends of the day.

Everybody has their thing that they're truthful about. My thing is just a love of God... so that's what I'm going to do.

The second you're not honest with yourself, you've lost everything.

There were questions I didn't have the answers to, and I was trying to figure it out. I remember staying up until 4 A.M. reading the Bible and praying.

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.

Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.