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The 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 Stein

The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
EDITH STEIN

Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN

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.
EDITH STEIN

Burn Economy Energy Heaven Understand Work
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
EDITH STEIN

Compulsion Fundamental Soul
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
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
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
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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Cherish Embrace Guard Live Natural Nourish Personal Seek Woman
Those who remain silent are responsible.
EDITH STEIN

One Liner Responsibility Silence
Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
EDITH STEIN

Acceptance God Himself Leaving
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
EDITH STEIN

Choice Desire Freedom
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN

One Liner Prayer Truth
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
EDITH STEIN

God Man Night Sleep
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 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
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
EDITH STEIN

Acceptance Love Truth

The 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.

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The 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.

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