Aeiman

“It is only the city dweller spending his weekends in the country who goes into raptures about nature; the farmer breathes in it. It is only the uncreative critic who is given to much talking about art. For the artist himself, his art is speech sufficient. It is only a motherless time that cries out for a mother, and a deeply unmotherly age that can point to the mother as a demand of the time, for it is precisely the mother who is timeless, the same in all epochs and among all peoples.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine

“Into this threefold prayer the praying woman includes the mysteries of her own motherhood, that through the mystery of the Mother of all mothers they may be uplifted. The earthly mother also has received her child from God; as his gift she has carried it and given it birth. Like Mary, she has presented it to God in the temple, and like her she has found it again in the temple.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine

“Here I am, Lord Jesus! I heard Thy call and I have come to find Thee in the Sacrament of Thy love. You could have come sooner. I was waiting for you. I am always waiting for you:”
― Anonymous, In Sinu Jesu: When Heart Speaks to Heart--The Journal of a Priest at Prayer

“For his redemption, man has nothing to contribute to God other than the readiness of unconditional surrender. The passive acceptance inherent in woman, which ancient philosophy regarded as purely negative, appears in the Christian order of grace as the positively decisive factor. The Marian dogma, reduced to a brief formula, denotes the doctrine of the cooperation of the creature in the work of redemption.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine