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

Edith Stein

The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
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
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
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
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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Carry Divine God Life Oneself Order World
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
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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God Man Night Sleep
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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Acceptance Love Truth
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
Those who remain silent are responsible.
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One Liner Responsibility Silence
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
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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heavy Old Oneself
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
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

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