When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINBut that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
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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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There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
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All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.
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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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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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Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
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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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The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
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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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A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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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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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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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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