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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINReligion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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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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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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The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
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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 universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
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Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.
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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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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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