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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINA 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.
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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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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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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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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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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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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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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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For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
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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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At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
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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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