Edith Stein Quotes

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

In the end, it is about whether God wants us to be in the final, but I know that is what God wants. This time we will not need the Hand of God, because it is the will of God.

They always win who side with God.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

Act of Faith

Why am I here? I'm not lucky. That's God.

As human beings, our lives should be in retrospect with God.

It is through our prayers, through our acts of faith that God works in partnership with us.

God gave me everything I have.

I am an extremely religious and spiritual person.

Everything I do in life I put in the hands of God, my creator.

I'm a God-fearing man.

I put everything in the hands of God. He takes care of us and helps us. If he wants me to play in the World Cup, he'll protect me.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.

Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the Law.

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.