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Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
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It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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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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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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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.
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Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.
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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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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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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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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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