Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIn 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.
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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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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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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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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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Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
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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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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
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At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
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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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I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
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The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
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