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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINLove 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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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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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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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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At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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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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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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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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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.
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In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.
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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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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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