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

Edith Stein

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
EDITH STEIN

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

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
Those who remain silent are responsible.
EDITH STEIN

One Liner Responsibility Silence
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
EDITH STEIN

God Man Night Sleep
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
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
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
EDITH STEIN

Fashion Home Soul Woman
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
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
EDITH STEIN

Compulsion Fundamental Soul
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
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 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.
EDITH STEIN

Food Forever Glory God Growth Himself Instrument Lips Purity
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
EDITH STEIN

God Realize Seek Truth
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

Abstract Activity Service Stand
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.
EDITH STEIN

Forever Light Marriage Professional Religious Woman World
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
EDITH STEIN

Choice Desire Freedom

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