Edith Stein Quotes

Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.

Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.

What's different about the Gospel of Thomas is that, instead of focusing entirely on who Jesus is and the wonderful works of Jesus, it focuses on how you and I can find the kingdom of God, or life in the presence of God.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.