Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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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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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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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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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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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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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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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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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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