One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
EDITH STEIN
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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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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Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.
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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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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.
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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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.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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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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Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God’s infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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On the question of relating to our fellowman – our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
EDITH STEIN