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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.

Edith Stein

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
EDITH STEIN

Acceptance Love Truth
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.
EDITH STEIN

Forget Gift God Life Motivational Religious Room
$Edith Stein Quote - Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God’s infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.$

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.
EDITH STEIN

Appearance Creature Divine Infinity Ray
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.
EDITH STEIN

Devotion God Heart Limitation Love Prayer Reach Soul Yourself
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN

Nation Need Simplicity
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.
EDITH STEIN

Break God Love Relationship Soul
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.
EDITH STEIN

God Lost Order Win
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.
EDITH STEIN

Command End God Love Philosophy Question Spiritual Transcendence
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN

One Liner Prayer Truth
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
EDITH STEIN

Compulsion Fundamental Soul
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’.
EDITH STEIN

Live Prayer Soul Talk True
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.
EDITH STEIN

Cherish Embrace Guard Live Natural Nourish Personal Seek Woman
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
EDITH STEIN

God Man Night Sleep
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.
EDITH STEIN

Accomplish Change God Morning Planning Power Work Yourself
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
EDITH STEIN

God Realize Seek Truth
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.
EDITH STEIN

Health Hold Need Position Practice 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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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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