Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
EDITH STEINWe 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.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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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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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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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.
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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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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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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 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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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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An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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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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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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