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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.

Edith Stein

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.
EDITH STEIN

Desire Easy God Live Man Natural Nature Talk Woman
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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heavy Old Oneself
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
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
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
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’.
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Live Prayer Soul Talk True
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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God Seek Truth 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
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
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Body Impossible Possible
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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God Realize Seek Truth
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman

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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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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