There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
EDITH STEINWho can sleep on the night that God became man?
More Edith Stein Quotes
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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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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 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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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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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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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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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 woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.
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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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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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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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