I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINLove 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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Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
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We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
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Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.
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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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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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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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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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However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
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