One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
EDITH STEINLet 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.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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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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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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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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An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God’s infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.
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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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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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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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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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