At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINPersonal 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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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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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 soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers – extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.
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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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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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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
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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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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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All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.
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In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
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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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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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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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