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Edith Stein Quotes: 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.
         

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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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.

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.



The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.

The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.



When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.



Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.



Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.



The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.



Those who remain silent are responsible.

Those who remain silent are responsible.



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.

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.



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.

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.



One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.





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