Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINBut that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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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.
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Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
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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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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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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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The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
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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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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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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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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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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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