Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
EDITH STEINMy longing for truth was a single prayer.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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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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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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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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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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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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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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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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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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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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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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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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