We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
EDITH STEINEach 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.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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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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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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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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As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor’s soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
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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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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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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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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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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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