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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
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Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
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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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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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If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
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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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Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
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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 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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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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I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
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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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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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