In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINIt cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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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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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 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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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
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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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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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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
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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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The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
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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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