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

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
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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heavy Old Oneself
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
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
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
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
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
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 nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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One Liner Prayer Truth
Those who remain silent are responsible.
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One Liner Responsibility Silence
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
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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God Realize Seek Truth
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

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

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