A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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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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Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.
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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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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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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
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