Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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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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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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We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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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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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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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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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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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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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
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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.
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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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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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What 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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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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