Edith Stein: Citáty anglicky

Edith Stein byla židovsko-německá jeptiška, teoložka a filozofka. Citáty anglicky.
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“Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), Spirituality of the Christian Woman (1932)

“Helene Lange throughout her life insisted that the dissimiliarity of the sexes must be emphasized in order that the feminine nature be freely developed and properly formed. Only then might this nature achieve its own cultural fulfillment, an achievement indeed necessary in our time as a suitable compensation for the obvious effects of our masculine Western culture; then feminine nature might be capable of authentic human formation and an activity of helping love.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), Problems of Women's Education (1932)

“We are being obliged to consider the significance of woman and her existence as a problem. We cannot evade the question as to what we are and what we should be.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), Spirituality of the Christian Woman (1932)

“Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help, and thus we are able to recapitulate in the one word motherliness that which we have developed as the characteristic value of woman. Only, the motherliness must be that which does not remain within the narrow circle of blood relations or of personal friends; but in accordance with the model of the Mother of Mercy, it must have its root in universal divine love for all who are there, belabored and burdened.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), The Significance of Woman's Intrinsic Value in National Life (1928)

“Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), The Ethos of Woman's Professions (1930)

“The distinction of the female sex is that a woman was the person who was permitted to help establish God's new kingdom; the distinction of the male sex is that redemption came through the Son of Man, the new Adam.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace (1932)

“For a wholesome collaboration of the sexes in professional life will be possible only if both achieve a calm and objective awareness of their nature and draw practical conclusions from it.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), The Ethos of Woman's Professions (1930)

“Because the sin which she encouraged him to commit was in all likelihood a sin of sensuality, woman is more intensely exposed to the danger of descent into stark carnality. And when this happens, she always becomes once again the evil seductress, whereas, paradoxically, God has specifically enjoined her to combat evil.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace (1932)

“And who would deny the intellect and will of girls? That would be questioning their full humanity. On the average, abstract and mere intellectual activity is not suitable for them; they want to understand reality completely, and they want to comprehend not merely with the intellect but also with the heart.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), Problems of Women's Education (1932)

“The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), Problems of Women's Education (1932)

“The teacher thus needs a basic education in dogma and asceticism. Apologetics is certainly also good, but the former seems more important to me: ready arguments, as right as they may be, often do not have penetrating force. But she whose soul is formed through the truths of faith — and I call this ascetic formation — finds words which are proper for this human being and for this moment respectively.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), The Significance of Woman's Intrinsic Value in National Life (1928)

“The intrinsic value of woman consists essentially in exceptional receptivity for God's work in the soul, and this value comes to unalloyed development if we abandon ourselves confidently and unresistingly to this work.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), The Significance of Woman's Intrinsic Value in National Life (1928)

“Every profession in which woman's soul comes into its own and which can be formed by woman's soul is an authentic woman's profession.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), The Ethos of Woman's Professions (1930)

“The soul of woman must therefore be expansive and open to all human beings; it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds; clear, so that no vermin will settle in dark corners and recesses; self-contained, so that no invasions from without can imperil the inner life; empty of self, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.”

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Essays on Woman (1996), Fundamental Principles of Women's Education (1931)