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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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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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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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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.
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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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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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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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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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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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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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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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Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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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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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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