But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINTruly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
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At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
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The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
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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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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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Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
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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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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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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 happy is a matter of personal taste.
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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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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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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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