Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
EDITH STEINJust take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
EDITH STEINThere is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
EDITH STEINWho can sleep on the night that God became man?
EDITH STEINAn ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEINWe 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 STEINEach 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 STEINThose 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 STEINEverything 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.
EDITH STEINWhen you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
EDITH STEINWoman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.
EDITH STEINThe Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine Will; sets the Kingdom of God within us; gives us pure lips, and a pure heart with which to glorify his holy name.
EDITH STEINThe woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
EDITH STEINDo not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
EDITH STEINAs 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 STEINThe world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
EDITH STEINEnergy 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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