There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINA sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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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.
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All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.
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All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.
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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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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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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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The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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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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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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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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