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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.

Edith Stein

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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Devotion God Heart Limitation Love Prayer Reach Soul Yourself
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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Acceptance Love Truth
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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Choice Desire Freedom
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
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
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
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
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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God Man Night Sleep
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 woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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heavy Old Oneself
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Body Impossible Possible
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
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
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy

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