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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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Awareness Expectation Great Presence Seem
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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Goodness How Interpretation Justify Love Men Offer One Preach Same Time World
No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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Ask Bo Happen Intend Longer Now Respond Something
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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Characteristic Deplore Exactly Human Invasion Irresistible Modern More Nothing One Surely Technology Time Welcome Whether World
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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Able Entirely Himself Life Man Mankind Neither See Unable Unrelate Unrelated
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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Arragement Cosmos Deeep Disposition Down Generis Involution Primordial Self Substance Sui
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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All Curve Evolution Fact Follow Illuminate Light Line Must
This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
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Essential Mysticism Name God Note Ourselves Penesterate Utter
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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Against Cause Follow Least Legendry Line Must Our React Resist Tendency We Happy
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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Christ Christian Divine Go Immense Like Make Note TruluY Vibrate Whole World
To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
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Critical Endless Eyes Indivisible Nature Our Pass Thread Woven
Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
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Appearance Essential Influence Outward Purity Subject Virtue
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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Atomic Character Everyday Experience Profound Universe Visible
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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Can Greater Handle Importendence What World
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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Beauty Confront Music Nature Nostalgia Seize Sense Universe
For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
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Administering Christian God Great Landowner Look Ninety Outside Percent This View
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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Already Been Deep Discover Know Nature Our Tendency
It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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Cross Essence Even Except Identity Intensively More Own Remain Self
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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Being Come Driven Each Force Fragment Love May Other Seek World
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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Christ Evolution Force Motive Say Term
For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
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Action Conception Feast Immaculate Passive
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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Ail Done Evolution Explicitly Man More Need Religion Superlative Survive
What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
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Being Cry Different Earthy Equal Every Life Like Out Passion Something Whole
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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Ability Duty Exist Limit Process Women
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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Believe Comprehend Creed Fully Heard Long Only Short Very
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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Act Complete Conjugate Knowledge Phase Religion Same Science Two

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