Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINEveryone, 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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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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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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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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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
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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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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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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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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
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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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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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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
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