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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.

Edith Stein

The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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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.
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Abstract Activity Service Stand
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
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
Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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Acceptance God Himself Leaving
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
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
Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day’s work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.
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Accomplish Change God Morning Planning Power Work Yourself
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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Cherish Embrace Guard Live Natural Nourish Personal Seek Woman
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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One Liner Prayer Truth
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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Burn Economy Energy Heaven Understand Work
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
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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God Man Night Sleep
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

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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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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