For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINHumanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
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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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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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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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Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.
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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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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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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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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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There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
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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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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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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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