Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINBy the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
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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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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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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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A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
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By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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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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Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
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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.
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