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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

Edith Stein

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
EDITH STEIN

God Realize Seek Truth
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
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
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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God Man Night Sleep
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 woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
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
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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Choice Desire Freedom
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Compulsion Fundamental Soul
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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One Liner Prayer Truth
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
Those who remain silent are responsible.
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One Liner Responsibility Silence
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 Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine Will; sets the Kingdom of God within us; gives us pure lips, and a pure heart with which to glorify his holy name.
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Food Forever Glory God Growth Himself Instrument Lips Purity
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
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.
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Break God Love Relationship Soul

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

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