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A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

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We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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Assilimate Manifest Only
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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Able After Fondness Lime Mathematician Physics Relativity Well
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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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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Being
For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
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Conception Feast Immaculate Passive
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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Being Catholic Christian Fully Only Utterly Way
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

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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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Defender Many Obscurity Prevail
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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Atomic Everyday Profound Visible
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

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The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
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Mineral Mobile More Much Supple
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Not Pull Root Them Up
All 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.

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All 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.
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Each Sanctify
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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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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Being Driven Each May Other
In 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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In 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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Itself Residue Tangible Vast Way Whole
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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Conquest Devote Universe Perpetual Survive
There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

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There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
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Corruption Purest Subsequent
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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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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All Behind Clearly Elsewhere Forward Making March Prow Spray Surely Thrown Wake
These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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Awareness Seem

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

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