The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThere is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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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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The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
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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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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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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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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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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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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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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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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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