Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINA sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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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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To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
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I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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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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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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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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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.’
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