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Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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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Away Best Dead Everything Geology Myself Owe Taught Tend Thing
The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.
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East Greatness Have Been Incomparable Lie None Passion Religion Second Vibrate
It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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Cross Essence Even Except Identity Intensively More Own Remain Self
The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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Biologically Conciallation Element Necessary Paradoxicate Unity Utopian Whole
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Country Not Pull Root Them Up
At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
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All Dissociate Extreme Matter Most Only Our Star State Survive Temperature
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.
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Direct Element Heart Less Love Market More Mothing Subtitle Trace
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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All Battle Day Deed Great Live Power Spend Us Wait
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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Arragement Cosmos Deeep Disposition Down Generis Involution Primordial Self Substance Sui
Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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Behind Console Himself Individual Leave May Offspring Pass Through Work
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
We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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Assilimate Experience Heaven Himself Home Impact Manifest Only Permanent Sad Truth
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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Act Complete Conjugate Knowledge Phase Religion Same Science Two
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.
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Await Ceratin Christ Ever Life Me More Must Press Term Thought Through Universe
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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Crust Earth Feet Heave Our Plung Stop Under Yet
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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Being Catholic Christian Fully Only Utterly Way

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