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.

PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
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Accordance Evolution General Most One Probably Scarcely
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.

PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

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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Moment No Religious Tell
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

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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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Comprehend Creed Fully Heard Long Only Very
No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

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No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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Bo Intend Longer Now Respond Something
We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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Second Shall
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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Analyze Final Itself Some Transmute
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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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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Already Been Know Our Tendency
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.

PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

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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Confine Enjoy Order Pagan Withing
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.

PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

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.
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Outward Subject
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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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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Confront Nostalgia Seize
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

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I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
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All Extract Give Obligation Think
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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Defender Many Obscurity Prevail
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.

PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

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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Crust Feet Heave Our Plung Under Yet
The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

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The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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Biologically Conciallation Element Paradoxicate Unity Utopian Whole
In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.

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In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.
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Inward Mileu Them
The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

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The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
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Atomic Everyday Profound Visible

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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.

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