15 quotes
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.
Essays on Woman (1996)
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.
Essays on Woman (1996)
Only the person blinded by the passion of controversy could deny that woman in soul and body is formed for a particular purpose.
Essays on Woman (1996)
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.
Essays on Woman (1996)
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.
Essays on Woman (1996)
To be a mother is to nourish and protect true humanity and bring it to development.
Essays on Woman (1996)
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.
Essays on Woman (1996)
As woman was the first to be tempted, so did God's message of grace come first to a woman, and each time woman's assent determined the destiny of humanity as a whole.
Essays on Woman (1996)
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.
Essays on Woman (1996)
We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.
Essays on Woman (1996)
The singular mission of the working woman is to fuse her feminine calling with her vocational calling and, by means of that fusion, to give a feminine quality to her vocational calling.
Essays on Woman (1996)
The deepest feminine yearning is to achieve a loving union which, in its development, validates this maturation and simultaneously stimulates and furthers the desire for perfection in others.
Essays on Woman (1996)
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.
Essays on Woman (1996)
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.
Essays on Woman (1996)
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.
Essays on Woman (1996)