At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINReligion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
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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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Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
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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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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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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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How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
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It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
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