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.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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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.
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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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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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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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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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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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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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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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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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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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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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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