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
EDITH STEIN
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Edith Stein32 quotes“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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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
Edith SteinEdith Stein 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.
Edith SteinEdith Stein The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
Edith SteinEdith Stein 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 SteinEdith Stein 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 SteinEdith Stein There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
Edith SteinEdith Stein The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
Edith SteinEdith Stein 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 SteinEdith Stein Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
Edith SteinEdith Stein 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 SteinEdith Stein We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
Edith SteinEdith Stein 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.
Edith SteinEdith Stein 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.
Edith SteinEdith Stein 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.
Edith SteinEdith Stein When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
Edith SteinEdith Stein The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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