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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
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All Earth Extract Fundamental Give Himself Man Obligation Think
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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One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
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Close Coming Difficulty Eyes Less More Must One Recognize Short Upset
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Joint Know Observe Product Universe
So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
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Effort Hiden Long Nameless Passion Spirit Tensedm Direct Thing Toward
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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Being Catholic Christian Fully Only Utterly Way
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Being Experience Human Spiritual
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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Confine Earth Enjoy Himself Love Order Pagan Withing
Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
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Appearance Essential Influence Outward Purity Subject Virtue
Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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Being Happy Matter Personal Taste
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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Centre Creator Curious Homogeneous Include Man Object Representation Science Succeed Thing Universe
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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Earth Individual Mankind People Person Spirit Synthesis
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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Beauty Confront Music Nature Nostalgia Seize Sense Universe
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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Breage Damage Danger World Draw Fault God Often Ourselves Represent Sorrow
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Country Not Pull Root Them Up
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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Discover God History Man Second Shall Time

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