My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIf we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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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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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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Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.
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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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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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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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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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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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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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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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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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It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
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