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 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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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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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 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.
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Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.
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The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
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Those who remain silent are responsible.
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Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
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Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
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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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Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.
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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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The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor’s soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
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