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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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
By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
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I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.
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Country Enjoy Greatly Influ Island Little Made One Paradise Real Spite
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
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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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Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
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All Behind Clearly Elsewhere Forward Making March Movement Prow Reveal Spray Surely Thrown Wake
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
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Consist Live Longer Mak Mind More One Own Renounce Response Self True
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
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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Believe Else Everything Fear Less One Opinion Persecution Thing
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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All Battle Day Deed Great Live Power Spend Us Wait
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
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Already Been Deep Discover Know Nature Our Tendency
Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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Become Concentrate Ever Form Goes Historically Into Matter More Organize Stuff Universe
But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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