The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
EDITH STEINEverywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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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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Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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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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An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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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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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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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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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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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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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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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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