Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIt 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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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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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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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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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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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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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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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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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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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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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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We 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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