Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
EDITH STEINAn ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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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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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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An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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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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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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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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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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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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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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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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