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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.

Edith 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.
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Accomplish Change God Morning Planning Power Work Yourself
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Compulsion Fundamental Soul
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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One Liner Prayer Truth
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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God Seek Truth Yourself
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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God Lost Order Win
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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Forget Gift God Life Motivational Religious Room
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
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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heavy Old Oneself
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
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.
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Cherish Embrace Guard Live Natural Nourish Personal Seek Woman
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
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
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
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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God Man Night Sleep
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

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