When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINA sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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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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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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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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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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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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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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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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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
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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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