It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINLove 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.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
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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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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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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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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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A 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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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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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 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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Love 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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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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