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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
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.
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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 can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
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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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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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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
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No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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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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I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
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