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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.

Edith Stein

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
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.
EDITH STEIN

Forever Light Marriage Professional Religious Woman World
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
EDITH STEIN

Fashion Home Soul Woman
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’.
EDITH STEIN

Live Prayer Soul Talk True
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
EDITH STEIN

Acceptance Love Truth
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.
EDITH STEIN

God Lost Order Win
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN

Nation Need Simplicity
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.
EDITH STEIN

Carry Divine God Life Oneself Order World
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
EDITH STEIN

Compulsion Fundamental Soul
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.
EDITH STEIN

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

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.
EDITH STEIN

Appearance Creature Divine Infinity Ray
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
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.
EDITH STEIN

Burn Economy Energy Heaven Understand Work
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEIN

Body Impossible Possible
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.
EDITH STEIN

Desire Easy God Live Man Natural Nature Talk Woman
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN

One Liner Prayer Truth

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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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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