The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWhat I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
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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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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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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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For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
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To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
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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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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
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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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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
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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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