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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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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.
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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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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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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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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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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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
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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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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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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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I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
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The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
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The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.
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