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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.

— Edith Stein Essays on Woman (1996)

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We can consider the Savior's great commandment of love, which he says includes the whole Law and the Prophets, as the Law of the New Covenant.

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.

Essays on Woman (1996)

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.

Essays on Woman (1996)

Only the person blinded by the passion of controversy could deny that woman in soul and body is formed for a particular purpose.

Essays on Woman (1996)

Everything that happened and continues to happen on a daily basis originates with a government that calls itself "Christian."

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