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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.

Edith Stein

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
EDITH STEIN

Choice Desire Freedom
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
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
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Compulsion Fundamental Soul
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
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Body Impossible Possible
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional 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
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 nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN

Nation Need Simplicity
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
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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God Realize Seek Truth
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
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
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 STEIN

Devotion God Heart Limitation Love Prayer Reach Soul Yourself

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