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.
EDITH STEINOne could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day’s work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.
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Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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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.
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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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