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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
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All Earth Extract Fundamental Give Himself Man Obligation Think
Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.
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Death Enter God Him Love Must Return Surrender Totally
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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Being Come Driven Each Force Fragment Love May Other Seek World
For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
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Administering Christian God Great Landowner Look Ninety Outside Percent This View
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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Matter Neither Spirit Stuff Universe World
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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Affinity Draw Element Link Love Together World
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
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
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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Analyze Difficult Final Good Happen Itself Question Some Transmute
I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Country Enjoy Greatly Influ Island Little Made One Paradise Real Spite
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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Able After Enough Fondness Judge Lime Mathematician Physics Relativity Well
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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Christ Evolution Force Motive Say Term
These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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Awareness Expectation Great Presence Seem
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
Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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Almost Cradle Figure Isolate Less Nature Regard Today Zoological
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

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