The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEINUsually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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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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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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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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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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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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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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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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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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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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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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