The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
EDITH STEINThe world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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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 will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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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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Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul ‘prays in us with unspeakable groanings’.
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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.
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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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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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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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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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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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