An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEINAnyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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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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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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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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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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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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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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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.
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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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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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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