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

Edith Stein

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.
EDITH STEIN

Burn Economy Energy Heaven Understand Work
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.
EDITH STEIN

Carry Divine God Life Oneself Order World
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN

One Liner Prayer Truth
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
EDITH STEIN

Existence Help Need Sympathy
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 nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
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
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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Acceptance Love Truth
Those who remain silent are responsible.
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One Liner Responsibility Silence
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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Choice Desire Freedom
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
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
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
EDITH STEIN

Fashion Home Soul 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.
EDITH STEIN

Abstract Activity Service Stand

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