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Edith Stein (religious name Teresa Benedicta a Cruce OCD; also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; 12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942), was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. She is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church.

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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

Day, Divine, Glorify, Heart, Holy Eucharist, Names

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Commandment, Everything, Love Is, Mean, Question, Spiritual

And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

Everything, God, Hands, Night, See, Take

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

Become, Compulsion, Should, Soul

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.

Everywhere, Exists, Helping, Maternal, Needs, Sympathy

Who can sleep on the night that God became man?

God, Man, Men, Night, Sleep

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.

Charges, Giving, Letting Go, Morning, Power, Work

Learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve Him with a wholly pure and detached heart. Then, like her, you will be able to say 'I do not regret that I have given myself up to Love'.

Alone, Catholic, Heart, Like, Regret, Say

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

God, Heart, Loving, Prayer, Soul

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

Crosses, Gets, Heavier, Old, Trouble, Usually

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.

Life, Motive, Order, Principle, Religious, Self

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

Needs, Women, World

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'.

Catholic, Groanings, Mean, Prayer, Prays, Soul

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

God, Realizes, Realizing, Seeks, Truth

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

May, Shelter, Soul, Unfold

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.

Desire, Giving, Lives, Man, Men, Nothing

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Catholic, Longing, Prayer, Single

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

Body, Impossible, Possibility, Self, Utterly

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.

Done, Economy, Energy, Heaven, Sooner, Waiting

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.

Broken, Creatures, Diversity, Fraction, Oneness

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