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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Believe Comprehend Creed Fully Heard Long Only Short Very
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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Eccircle Friendship May Round World
It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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Cross Essence Even Except Identity Intensively More Own Remain Self
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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Animate Breath Cell Day First Great Mystery One Our Soul
Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
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All Behind Clearly Elsewhere Forward Making March Movement Prow Reveal Spray Surely Thrown Wake
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Joint Know Observe Product Universe
Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Become Exact Exactly Fidelity God Hand Maintain One Ourselves Situate Them Thought
Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Behind Console Himself Individual Leave May Offspring Pass Through Work
But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Battle Circumstance Day Deed External Great Power Want
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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Able Entirely Himself Life Man Mankind Neither See Unable Unrelate Unrelated
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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Can Greater Handle Importendence What World
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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Affinity Draw Element Link Love Together World
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Been Gave Large Most One Other Part Satisfy Self Thing
The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
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Crust Earth Feet Heave Our Plung Stop Under Yet
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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Administering Christian God Great Landowner Look Ninety Outside Percent This View
Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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Being Happy Matter Personal Taste
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Await Ceratin Christ Ever Life Me More Must Press Term Thought Through Universe
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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Defender Die Ideal Many Obscurity Prevail
It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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Anyway Cold Go Have Matter Through Wade Warm Water
No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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Human Molecule Produce Substance Universe
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
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Acceptance Condition Death Metamorphosis Passage Physical Represent Towards Union
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Already Been Deep Discover Know Nature Our Tendency
This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
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Essential Mysticism Name God Note Ourselves Penesterate Utter
The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Act Contemplate Embrace Evolution Future Knowledge Only Past
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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Fact Faith History Moment No Release Religious Tell
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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Critical Endless Eyes Indivisible Nature Our Pass Thread Woven
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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Disconcert Man Met Most Mysterious Object Point Positivist Purely Science View

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