The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINAll ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
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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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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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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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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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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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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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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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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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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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This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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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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