Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINEverywhere 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.
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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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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.
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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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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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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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At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
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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.
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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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