Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIn 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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Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
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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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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
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What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
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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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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.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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