To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
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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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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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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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
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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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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
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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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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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