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In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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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In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
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Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
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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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To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
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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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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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For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
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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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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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Become Exact Exactly Fidelity God Hand Maintain One Ourselves Situate Them Thought
There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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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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