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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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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Acceptance Condition Death Metamorphosis Passage Physical Represent Towards Union
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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Continue Country Doubt Draw Everyone First Force Foremost Man Motive Own Remain
It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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Cross Essence Even Except Identity Intensively More Own Remain Self
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
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Confine Earth Enjoy Himself Love Order Pagan Withing
So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
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Effort Hiden Long Nameless Passion Spirit Tensedm Direct Thing Toward
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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Disconcert Man Met Most Mysterious Object Point Positivist Purely Science View
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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Believe Else Everything Fear Less One Opinion Persecution Thing
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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Itself Residue Tangible Universe Vast Way Whole
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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Able After Enough Fondness Judge Lime Mathematician Physics Relativity Well
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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Ascending Biology Chemistry Geology Man Physics Understand
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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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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Come Compelettlym Domination Death God Guidance Ourselves Surrender When
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Animate Breath Cell Day First Great Mystery One Our Soul
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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Death Enter God Him Love Must Return Surrender Totally
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Joint Know Observe Product Universe
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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Breage Damage Danger World Draw Fault God Often Ourselves Represent Sorrow

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