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An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.

Edith Stein

$Edith Stein Quote - Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God’s infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.$

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 STEIN

Appearance Creature Divine Infinity Ray
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.
EDITH STEIN

Burn Economy Energy Heaven Understand Work
Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
EDITH STEIN

Acceptance God Himself Leaving
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.
EDITH STEIN

Desire Easy God Live Man Natural Nature Talk Woman
An ‘I’ without a body is a possibility. But a body without an ‘I’ is utterly impossible.
EDITH STEIN

Body Impossible Possible
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
EDITH STEIN

God Seek Truth Yourself
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.
EDITH STEIN

Forget Gift God Life Motivational Religious Room
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN

One Liner Prayer Truth
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.
EDITH STEIN

Forever Light Marriage Professional Religious Woman World
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.
EDITH STEIN

Cherish Embrace Guard Live Natural Nourish Personal Seek Woman
The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
EDITH STEIN

Fashion Home Soul Woman
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.
EDITH STEIN

God Lost Order Win
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
EDITH STEIN

Choice Desire Freedom
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.
EDITH STEIN

Food Forever Glory God Growth Himself Instrument Lips Purity
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN

Nation Need Simplicity
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
EDITH STEIN

Compulsion Fundamental Soul

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