(St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)
German philosopher, born to an observant Jewish family, converted from atheism to Roman Catholicism, accepted into the Carmelite order of nuns, murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp
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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. . . .
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.
Edith Stein (1891-1942)
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