“The true Christian is not obliged to renounce the things of this world or to lessen his natural abilities.”

— Edith Stein

Essays on Woman (1996), Problems of Women's Education (1932)
Context: The true Christian is not obliged to renounce the things of this world or to lessen his natural abilities. On the contrary, inasmuch as he incorporates them into his normal life in a disciplined manner, he develops and perfects them; he thereby ennobles the natural life itself, supplying efficacious values to it not only of the spiritual and eternal world but also of the material and earthly world.

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Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher 1891–1942

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