Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
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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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Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
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The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
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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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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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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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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
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One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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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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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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We 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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