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The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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.
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Ail Done Evolution Explicitly Man More Need Religion Superlative Survive
For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
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Administering Christian God Great Landowner Look Ninety Outside Percent This View
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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Believe Comprehend Creed Fully Heard Long Only Short Very
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Joint Know Observe Product Universe
However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
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Back Characteristic Childhood Familiar Far Go However Into More Nothing Seems
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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All Curve Evolution Fact Follow Illuminate Light Line Must
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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Concentrate Corruption Little Loss Purest Subsequent
Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.
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Direct Element Heart Less Love Market More Mothing Subtitle Trace
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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Blood Energy Evolution Love Reserve Sacred Spiritual
To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
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Critical Endless Eyes Indivisible Nature Our Pass Thread Woven
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Commit Crime Grow Increase Like Old Penalize
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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Being Catholic Christian Fully Only Utterly Way
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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Ancient Imagine Mineral Mobile More Much Science Supple World
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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Been Gave Large Most One Other Part Satisfy Self Thing
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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Arose Defence Empirical Individual Large Morality Society
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.
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All Attitude Cause Christian Forget Hope Human Itself Love Making Neither Organise Society

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