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.
EDITH STEINJust take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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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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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 will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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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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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.
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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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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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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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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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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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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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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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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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