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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.

Edith Stein

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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Choice Desire Freedom
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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God Seek Truth Yourself
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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Acceptance Love Truth
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
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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Break God Love Relationship Soul
Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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Acceptance God Himself Leaving
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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Carry Divine God Life Oneself Order World
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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Live Prayer Soul Talk True
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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Devotion God Heart Limitation Love Prayer Reach Soul Yourself
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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Burn Economy Energy Heaven Understand Work
On the question of relating to our fellowman – our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
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Command End God Love Philosophy Question Spiritual Transcendence
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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Abstract Activity Service Stand
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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Accomplish Change God Morning Planning Power Work Yourself
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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Food Forever Glory God Growth Himself Instrument Lips Purity
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Compulsion Fundamental Soul
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Body Impossible Possible

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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