Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWhat is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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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.
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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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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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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 feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.
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Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
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For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
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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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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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