We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINTo be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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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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By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
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The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
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One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
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For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
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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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Truly, 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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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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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
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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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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.
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I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.
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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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