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Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
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Already Been Deep Discover Know Nature Our Tendency
However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
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Back Characteristic Childhood Familiar Far Go However Into More Nothing Seems
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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Another Archive Personal Satisfaction Success Them Thought Worry Worth
Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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Behind Console Himself Individual Leave May Offspring Pass Through Work
The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
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Fact Faith History Moment No Release Religious Tell
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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Directly God History Kingdom One Reunion
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Being Experience Human Spiritual
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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Arose Defence Empirical Individual Large Morality Society
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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All Birth Christianity Cross Dominate Pledge Sign Time
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Ascending Biology Chemistry Geology Man Physics Understand
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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Accident Accordance Born Earth Evolution General Law Most One Probably Scarcely
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Commit Crime Grow Increase Like Old Penalize
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
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Country Not Pull Root Them Up
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
If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
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Against Cause Follow Least Legendry Line Must Our React Resist Tendency We Happy

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