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To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Adventure Conquest Devote Universe Discover Love Perpetual Survive
If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Against Cause Follow Least Legendry Line Must Our React Resist Tendency We Happy
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Await Ceratin Christ Ever Life Me More Must Press Term Thought Through Universe
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
No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Ask Bo Happen Intend Longer Now Respond Something
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Confine Earth Enjoy Himself Love Order Pagan Withing
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Christ Evolution Force Motive Say Term
In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Each God Incommunicable Particular Party Save Soil Soul Sum Way Whole World
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
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Commit Crime Grow Increase Like Old Penalize
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Absolute Enter Entirely Fact Field Into Represent Singular Sole Something Thought Unique
I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Ceiling Country Expres Finally Like Man Partition Penetrate Through
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
Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Become Concentrate Ever Form Goes Historically Into Matter More Organize Stuff Universe
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Being Catholic Christian Fully Only Utterly Way
All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Always Each Individual Live Sanctify