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 STEINEach 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 STEINAnyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
EDITH STEINThe nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEINAn ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEINAs 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 STEINEnergy 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 STEINWe 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.
EDITH STEINThe woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
EDITH STEINThe 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.
EDITH STEINWhen you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
EDITH STEINThose 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.
EDITH STEINLet 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 STEINOn 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 STEINMy longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEINWoman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.
EDITH STEINDo not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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