My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEINEverything 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.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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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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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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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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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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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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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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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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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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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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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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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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