The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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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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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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The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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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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Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.
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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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