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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
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Almost Chosen Course Disperse Earth Gradual Part Real Segregation Still Universe
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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Creative Evil Failure Goodness One Our Physics Power Problem Purely Reconcile Say That
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
Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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Behind Console Himself Individual Leave May Offspring Pass Through Work
Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
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All Behind Clearly Elsewhere Forward Making March Movement Prow Reveal Spray Surely Thrown Wake
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
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Distance God Him Hostile Let Live Man Neutral Remain Universe
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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Blood Energy Evolution Love Reserve Sacred Spiritual
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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Being Come Driven Each Force Fragment Love May Other Seek World
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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Accident Accordance Born Earth Evolution General Law Most One Probably Scarcely
By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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All Birth Christianity Cross Dominate Pledge Sign Time
The 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.
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Ancient Imagine Mineral Mobile More Much Science Supple World
I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.
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Country Enjoy Greatly Influ Island Little Made One Paradise Real Spite
However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
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Back Characteristic Childhood Familiar Far Go However Into More Nothing Seems
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
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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Beauty Confront Music Nature Nostalgia Seize Sense Universe
Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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Almost Cradle Figure Isolate Less Nature Regard Today Zoological

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