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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
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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Choice Desire Freedom
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
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Empowerment Inspirational Practice Professional Woman
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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God Seek Truth Yourself
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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Acceptance Love Truth
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
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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Body Impossible Possible
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
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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heavy Old Oneself
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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Carry Divine God Life Oneself Order World
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Fashion Home Soul Woman
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
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Compulsion Fundamental Soul
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
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy

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