Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
EDITH STEINAnyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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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.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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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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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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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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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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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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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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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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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we 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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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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