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An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.

Edith Stein

$Edith Stein Quote - Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God’s infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.$

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.
EDITH STEIN

Appearance Creature Divine Infinity Ray
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
EDITH STEIN

Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
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.
EDITH STEIN

Food Forever Glory God Growth Himself Instrument Lips Purity
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN

One Liner Prayer Truth
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEIN

Body Impossible Possible
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.
EDITH STEIN

Burn Economy Energy Heaven Understand Work
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
EDITH STEIN

Existence Help Need Sympathy
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
EDITH STEIN

Acceptance Love Truth
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.
EDITH STEIN

Forget Gift God Life Motivational Religious Room
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.
EDITH STEIN

Devotion God Heart Limitation Love Prayer Reach Soul Yourself
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.
EDITH STEIN

God Lost Order Win
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.
EDITH STEIN

Desire Easy God Live Man Natural Nature Talk Woman
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
EDITH STEIN

Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
EDITH STEIN

Choice Desire Freedom
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’.
EDITH STEIN

Live Prayer Soul Talk True
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN

Nation Need Simplicity

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