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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

Edith Stein

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 STEIN

Forget Gift God Life Motivational Religious Room
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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heavy Old Oneself
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 STEIN

Devotion God Heart Limitation Love Prayer Reach Soul Yourself
Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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Acceptance God Himself Leaving
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
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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Burn Economy Energy Heaven Understand Work
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
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.
EDITH STEIN

Command End God Love Philosophy Question Spiritual Transcendence
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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Abstract Activity Service Stand
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Body Impossible Possible
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
EDITH STEIN

Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
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.
EDITH STEIN

Health Hold Need Position Practice Woman
$Edith Stein Quote - Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God’s infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.$

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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Appearance Creature Divine Infinity Ray
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
EDITH STEIN

God Seek Truth Yourself
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
EDITH STEIN

Acceptance Love Truth

When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

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