For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINI am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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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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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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For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
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A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
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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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By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
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The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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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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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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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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