One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
EDITH STEINThe 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.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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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 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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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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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.
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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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Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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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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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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