Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINTruly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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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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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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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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Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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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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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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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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I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
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Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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