To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIs 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.
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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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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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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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Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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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.
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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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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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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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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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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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