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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Edith Stein

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

heavy Old Oneself
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
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 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 nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN

Nation Need Simplicity
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
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
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
EDITH STEIN

God Seek Truth Yourself
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN

One Liner Prayer Truth
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
EDITH STEIN

Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
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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God Lost Order Win
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
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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Acceptance Love Truth
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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God Realize Seek Truth

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