One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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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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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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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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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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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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