In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINDriven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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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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If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
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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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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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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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It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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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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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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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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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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