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.
EDITH STEINMy longing for truth was a single prayer.
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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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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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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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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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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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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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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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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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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We 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.
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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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