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 CHARDINSomeday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
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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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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
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The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
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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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At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
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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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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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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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