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’.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWe 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.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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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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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
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The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
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Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
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No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
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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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I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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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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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 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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