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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

Edith Stein

Everything 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.
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Abstract Activity Service Stand
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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Health Hold Need Position Practice Woman
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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Food Forever Glory God Growth Himself Instrument Lips Purity
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
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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heavy Old Oneself
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Body Impossible Possible
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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Accomplish Change God Morning Planning Power Work Yourself
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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Desire Easy God Live Man Natural Nature Talk Woman
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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Choice Desire Freedom
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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Acceptance Love Truth
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
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
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
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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God Realize Seek Truth

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