There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
EDITH STEINEach 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.
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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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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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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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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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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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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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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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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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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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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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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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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