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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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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Defender Die Ideal Many Obscurity Prevail
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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Age Art Children Experience Feel First Imagine Other Person Religion
There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
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Conviction Envisage Good Hold Independence Many Oneself Question Sacrifice Time
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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Another Archive Personal Satisfaction Success Them Thought Worry Worth
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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Distance God Him Hostile Let Live Man Neutral Remain Universe
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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Earth Individual Mankind People Person Spirit Synthesis
I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
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Destroy Disillusioned Grandfather Ironic Person Seem Smile Triumphant
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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Adventure Conquest Devote Universe Discover Love Perpetual Survive
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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Arragement Cosmos Deeep Disposition Down Generis Involution Primordial Self Substance Sui
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a . We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
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Centre Creator Curious Homogeneous Include Man Object Representation Science Succeed Thing Universe
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
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All Attitude Cause Christian Forget Hope Human Itself Love Making Neither Organise Society
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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Appearance Atmosphere Create Earth Everywhere Evolution Idea Moment New Spiritual
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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All Earth Extract Fundamental Give Himself Man Obligation Think
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
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
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Breage Damage Danger World Draw Fault God Often Ourselves Represent Sorrow
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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Being Catholic Christian Fully Only Utterly Way
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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Analyze Difficult Final Good Happen Itself Question Some Transmute
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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Been Gave Large Most One Other Part Satisfy Self Thing
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
At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
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All Dissociate Extreme Matter Most Only Our Star State Survive Temperature
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Being Experience Human Spiritual
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
Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
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Characteristic Deplore Exactly Human Invasion Irresistible Modern More Nothing One Surely Technology Time Welcome Whether World
One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
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Close Coming Difficulty Eyes Less More Must One Recognize Short Upset
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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Christ Evolution Force Motive Say Term
But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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Battle Circumstance Day Deed External Great Power Want
I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
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Away Best Dead Everything Geology Myself Owe Taught Tend Thing

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