It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
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Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
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For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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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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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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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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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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