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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

An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEIN

Body Impossible Possible
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
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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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.
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Command End God Love Philosophy Question Spiritual Transcendence
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
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
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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God Realize Seek Truth
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy
Those who remain silent are responsible.
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One Liner Responsibility Silence
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.
EDITH STEIN

One Liner Prayer Truth
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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Choice Desire Freedom
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
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
EDITH STEIN

God Man Night Sleep

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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