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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

Edith Stein

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
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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Break God Love Relationship Soul
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Compulsion Fundamental Soul
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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God Seek Truth Yourself
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
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
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
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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Forever Light Marriage Professional Religious Woman World
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Body Impossible Possible
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 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
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
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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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

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