Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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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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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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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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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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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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Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
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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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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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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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