5 Quotes & Sayings By Alice Von Hildebrand

Alice von Hildebrand was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921. She was a student at the University of Vienna when the Nazis came to power in 1938. She resisted their efforts to force her into a convent and fled with her parents to England in 1940 where they were granted asylum. In 1943, they left England for the United States where Alice completed her undergraduate studies at Columbia University and then studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York City Read more

In 1952, she married the Rev. Herbert Ritter, an Austrian expatriate priest who had met her there in 1941. Together they founded the Institute for Religious Works (now the "Institute for Eternal Life") which continues to this day in San Diego, California, under Alice's leadership (www.iellc.org).

Alice's books include The Road to Reunion (New York: Harper & Row, 1955), Devotion (San Francisco: Ignatius Press), and Eternal Life (San Francisco: Ignatius Press). For her work in bringing Catholic teaching on eternal life to Protestant readers (an endeavor she began when she wrote The Road to Reunion), she received the 1962 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 1963 Distinguished Service Award from the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

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Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men. Alice Von Hildebrand
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One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom a woman has given birth will live forever, for he has been given an immortal soul made to God's image and likeness. In this light, the assertion of de Beauvoir that 'women produce nothing' becomes particularly ludicrous. . Alice Von Hildebrand
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The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God). Alice Von Hildebrand
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Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked. Alice Von Hildebrand