I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe 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.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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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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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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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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No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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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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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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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
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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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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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