Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWe often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
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Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a . We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
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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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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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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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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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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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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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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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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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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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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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