To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINEvolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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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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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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We 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.
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The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
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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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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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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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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
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The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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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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Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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