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Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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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Each God Incommunicable Particular Party Save Soil Soul Sum Way Whole World
Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
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Await Ceratin Christ Ever Life Me More Must Press Term Thought Through Universe
The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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Biologically Conciallation Element Necessary Paradoxicate Unity Utopian Whole
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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Divine Each Other Eliminate Inward Mileu Them Ultimate Universe
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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Affinity Draw Element Link Love Together World
The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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Act Contemplate Embrace Evolution Future Knowledge Only Past
These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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Awareness Expectation Great Presence Seem
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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Been Gave Large Most One Other Part Satisfy Self Thing
To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
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Critical Endless Eyes Indivisible Nature Our Pass Thread Woven
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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Ail Done Evolution Explicitly Man More Need Religion Superlative Survive
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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Concentrate Corruption Little Loss Purest Subsequent
Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
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Centre Create Dissociate Gradual Humanity Most People Person Primitae State Survive Work
How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
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Animate Breath Cell Day First Great Mystery One Our Soul
What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
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Being Cry Different Earthy Equal Every Life Like Out Passion Something Whole
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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Almost Chosen Course Disperse Earth Gradual Part Real Segregation Still Universe
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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Goodness How Interpretation Justify Love Men Offer One Preach Same Time World

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