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

Edith Stein

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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Choice Desire Freedom
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN

One Liner Prayer Truth
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Compulsion Fundamental Soul
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
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
EDITH STEIN

God Seek Truth Yourself
The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must ‘go out of oneself’; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.
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Carry Divine God Life Oneself Order World
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor’s soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
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Break God Love Relationship Soul
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
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God Lost Order Win
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 nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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heavy Old Oneself
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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God Man Night Sleep
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
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Body Impossible Possible
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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Live Prayer Soul Talk True
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World

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