Edith Stein Quotes

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.

What I have learned is that freedom is not free.

Nothing good happens without a penalty.

The process of really changing your skin is painful and difficult and endless. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

War made my everyday problems seem much smaller, and when it is hard sometimes, I just remember that it could be much worse.

I'm always in trouble.

I don't regret anything, not even leaving Boca because it was the time to do so.

Jesus asks me to go to him when I am overburdened. He did not promise to take away those burdens, for I must carry mine as he carried his.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

Everything good requires sacrifices.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

We're never gonna move forward if we can't let go of things, especially things that don't happen to people today.