How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
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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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
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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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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
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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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How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
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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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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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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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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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We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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