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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThrough fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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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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One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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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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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.
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Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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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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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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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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