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.
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.
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Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.
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Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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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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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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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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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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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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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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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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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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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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