What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINLet 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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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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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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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
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Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
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The soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers – extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.
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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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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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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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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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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.
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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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There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
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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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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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