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I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Cross Essence Even Except Identity Intensively More Own Remain Self
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Country Not Pull Root Them Up
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Being Creation Day Dream Every Fragment Heart One Organic Principal Treasure Will
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Essential Mysticism Name God Note Ourselves Penesterate Utter
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Breage Damage Danger World Draw Fault God Often Ourselves Represent Sorrow
Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.
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Appearance Atmosphere Create Earth Everywhere Evolution Idea Moment New Spiritual
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
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Animate Breath Cell Day First Great Mystery One Our Soul
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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Await Ceratin Christ Ever Life Me More Must Press Term Thought Through Universe
All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Act All Been Habit Ingrain Know Me Sort Thanks
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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Close Coming Difficulty Eyes Less More Must One Recognize Short Upset
There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Conviction Envisage Good Hold Independence Many Oneself Question Sacrifice Time
How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Goodness How Interpretation Justify Love Men Offer One Preach Same Time World
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Discover God History Man Second Shall Time
No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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Human Molecule Produce Substance Universe
The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
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Atomic Character Everyday Experience Profound Universe Visible