It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINDeep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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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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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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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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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
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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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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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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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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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Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
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