Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
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.
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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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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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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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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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We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
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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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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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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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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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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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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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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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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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