Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
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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To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
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We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
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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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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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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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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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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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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
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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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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.
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