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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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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Directly God History Kingdom One Reunion
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
It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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Anyway Cold Go Have Matter Through Wade Warm Water
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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Consist Live Longer Mak Mind More One Own Renounce Response Self True
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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Away Best Dead Everything Geology Myself Owe Taught Tend Thing
The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
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Atomic Character Everyday Experience Profound Universe Visible
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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Animate Breath Cell Day First Great Mystery One Our Soul
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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Absolute Enter Entirely Fact Field Into Represent Singular Sole Something Thought Unique
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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Ability Duty Exist Limit Process Women
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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Breage Damage Danger World Draw Fault God Often Ourselves Represent Sorrow
Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.
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Appearance Atmosphere Create Earth Everywhere Evolution Idea Moment New Spiritual
But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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Battle Circumstance Day Deed External Great Power Want
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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Earth Individual Mankind People Person Spirit Synthesis
I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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Came Country Follow Raw Region Star Steam Myself Universe
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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Action Conception Feast Immaculate Passive
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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Defender Die Ideal Many Obscurity Prevail

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