God has come to redeem us; to unite us to divinity and to one another. God knows our nature. God reckons with it and has therefore given us every help necessary to reach the goal of union. The divine

child has become a teacher and told us what to do.

 

We are to penetrate an entire human life with the divine life. It is not enough to kneel once a year before the crib and let ourselves be captivated by the charm of the Holy Night. To achieve the goal we must be in daily contact with God, listening to the words God has spoken and which have been passed on to us, and we must obey those words. We must above all pray as the Savior has taught us so insistently. 

Edith Stein, 1891-1942