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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

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
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
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
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Compulsion Fundamental Soul
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
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
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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God Realize Seek Truth
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
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 nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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Acceptance Love Truth
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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God Man Night Sleep
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 world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
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
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman

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