I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINEvolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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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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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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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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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
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At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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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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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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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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