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One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
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Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
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Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
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Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
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It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a . We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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