Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
EDITH STEINMy longing for truth was a single prayer.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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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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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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Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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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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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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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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