Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINMankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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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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The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
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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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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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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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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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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
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