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.
EDITH STEINWho can sleep on the night that God became man?
More Edith Stein Quotes
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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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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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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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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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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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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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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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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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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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.
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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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