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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

Edith Stein

An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Body Impossible Possible
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
EDITH STEIN

God Seek Truth Yourself
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
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul 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
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Compulsion Fundamental Soul
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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Acceptance Love Truth
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
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
One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Health Hold Need Position Practice 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
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
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
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

When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

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