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Quote by Catherine Doherty

“What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.”

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Catherine Doherty, born on August 15, 1896 in Canada, passed away on December 14, 1985. She was a writer known for her dedication to the care of children and youth. more

“Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life?”

Ifs Knows Want Joy Order Language Our Lives Hope And Love

Author:Catherine Doherty

“He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.”

World Humans Ideas Human Beings Creation Extensions Ongoing Participating Consecration God's Creation

Author:Robert Ellsberg

“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.”

Ends Self Life Is Order Religious Forget Rooms Principles Absolutes Motive Religious Life Forget Love

Book:Edith Stein Essays on Woman

Source: Edith Stein Essays on Woman

“Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.”

Men Soul Character Body Happens Certain Instruments Affected Detachment Parts Of The Body

Book:Edith Stein Essays on Woman

Source: Edith Stein Essays on Woman

“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.”

Men Giving Desire Speak Can Do Natural Easier

Book:Edith Stein Essays on Woman

Source: Edith Stein Essays on Woman

“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.”

Ifs Matter Light Order Religious Eternity Profession Worldly Vocation

Book:Edith Stein Essays on Woman

Source: Edith Stein Essays on Woman

“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.”

Giving Firsts Hours Morning Plans Letting Go Accomplish

Author:Edith Stein

“I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God.”

Feels Years Girl Given Given Up Jewish Religion

Author:Edith Stein

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