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Edith Stein

An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEIN

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

Choice Desire Freedom
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
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor’s soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
EDITH STEIN

Break God Love Relationship Soul
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.
EDITH STEIN

Carry Divine God Life Oneself Order World
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.
EDITH STEIN

Accomplish Change God Morning Planning Power Work Yourself
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
EDITH STEIN

God Seek Truth Yourself
On the question of relating to our fellowman – our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
EDITH STEIN

Command End God Love Philosophy Question Spiritual Transcendence
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
EDITH STEIN

God Realize Seek Truth
Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
EDITH STEIN

God Man Night Sleep
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

Forever Light Marriage Professional Religious Woman World
$Edith Stein Quote - Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God’s infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.$

Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God’s infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.
EDITH STEIN

Appearance Creature Divine Infinity Ray
Those who remain silent are responsible.
EDITH STEIN

One Liner Responsibility Silence
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN

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.
EDITH STEIN

Burn Economy Energy Heaven Understand Work
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

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