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However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
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Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
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To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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Analyze Difficult Final Good Happen Itself Question Some Transmute
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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After Gravity Ideal Master Someday Wave
No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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Human Molecule Produce Substance Universe
In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.
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Divine Each Other Eliminate Inward Mileu Them Ultimate Universe
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Country Not Pull Root Them Up
Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
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Consequently Contact Each Encroachment Guard Intelligent Need Other
I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
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Away Best Dead Everything Geology Myself Owe Taught Tend Thing
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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Able Entirely Himself Life Man Mankind Neither See Unable Unrelate Unrelated
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
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Distance God Him Hostile Let Live Man Neutral Remain Universe
Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
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All Behind Clearly Elsewhere Forward Making March Movement Prow Reveal Spray Surely Thrown Wake
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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Arragement Cosmos Deeep Disposition Down Generis Involution Primordial Self Substance Sui
Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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Almost Cradle Figure Isolate Less Nature Regard Today Zoological
Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
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