Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God’s infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.
EDITH STEINWho can sleep on the night that God became man?
More Edith Stein Quotes
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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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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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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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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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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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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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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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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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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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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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