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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
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
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
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
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 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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Food Forever Glory God Growth Himself Instrument Lips Purity
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
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
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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Acceptance Love Truth
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
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Health Hold Need Position Practice Woman
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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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
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy

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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