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Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Being Catholic Christian Fully Only Utterly Way
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

All Earth Extract Fundamental Give Himself Man Obligation Think
But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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Battle Circumstance Day Deed External Great Power Want
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
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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Ask Bo Happen Intend Longer Now Respond Something
The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Creative Evil Failure Goodness One Our Physics Power Problem Purely Reconcile Say That
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Essential Mysticism Name God Note Ourselves Penesterate Utter
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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Being Cry Different Earthy Equal Every Life Like Out Passion Something Whole
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a . We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
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Centre Creator Curious Homogeneous Include Man Object Representation Science Succeed Thing Universe
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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Christ Evolution Force Motive Say Term
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
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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Each God Incommunicable Particular Party Save Soil Soul Sum Way Whole World
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Country Not Pull Root Them Up
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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Destroy Disillusioned Grandfather Ironic Person Seem Smile Triumphant
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Distance God Him Hostile Let Live Man Neutral Remain Universe
Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Appearance Atmosphere Create Earth Everywhere Evolution Idea Moment New Spiritual