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Edith Stein

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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Forever Light Marriage Professional Religious Woman World
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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Choice Desire Freedom
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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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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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
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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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
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
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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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
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Compulsion Fundamental Soul
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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