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

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

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.

So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

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.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

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.

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.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.