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Edith 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.
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Devotion God Heart Limitation Love Prayer Reach Soul Yourself
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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Desire Easy God Live Man Natural Nature Talk Woman
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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One Liner Prayer Truth
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
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy
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
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
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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Choice Desire Freedom
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
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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God Man Night Sleep
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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heavy Old Oneself
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman

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