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There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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.
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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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All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.
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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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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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At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
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This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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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.
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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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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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All Attitude Cause Christian Forget Hope Human Itself Love Making Neither Organise Society
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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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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