Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
EDITH STEINEach 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.
More Edith Stein Quotes
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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.
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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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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
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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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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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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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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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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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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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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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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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