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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.

Edith Stein

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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Acceptance Love Truth
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.
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Burn Economy Energy Heaven Understand Work
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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One Liner Prayer Truth
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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Cherish Embrace Guard Live Natural Nourish Personal Seek Woman
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Nation Need Simplicity
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
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Compulsion Fundamental Soul
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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heavy Old Oneself
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 world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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God Seek Truth Yourself
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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Choice Desire Freedom
Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.
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Abstract Activity Service Stand
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
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Devotion God Heart Limitation Love Prayer Reach Soul Yourself
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
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Existence Help Need Sympathy

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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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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