It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a . We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINReligion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
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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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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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The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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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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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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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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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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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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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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No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
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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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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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