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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Edith Stein

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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heavy Old Oneself
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.
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Nation Need Simplicity
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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Desire Easy God Live Man Natural Nature Talk Woman
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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One Liner Prayer Truth
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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Devotion God Heart Limitation Love Prayer Reach Soul Yourself
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
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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Health Hold Need Position Practice Woman
Those who remain silent are responsible.
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One Liner Responsibility Silence
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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Forever Light Marriage Professional Religious Woman World
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
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
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.
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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Choice Desire Freedom

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