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I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
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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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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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Able Entirely Himself Life Man Mankind Neither See Unable Unrelate Unrelated
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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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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Being Experience Human Spiritual
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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Discover God History Man Second Shall Time
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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Believe Comprehend Creed Fully Heard Long Only Short Very
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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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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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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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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Await Ceratin Christ Ever Life Me More Must Press Term Thought Through Universe
The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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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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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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