Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINLove 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.
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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
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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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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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By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
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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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How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
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We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
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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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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 is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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