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.
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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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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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.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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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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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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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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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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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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An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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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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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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