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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

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
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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Age Art Children Experience Feel First Imagine Other Person Religion
Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
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Await Ceratin Christ Ever Life Me More Must Press Term Thought Through Universe
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
The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Country Not Pull Root Them Up
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
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
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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The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
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Directly God History Kingdom One Reunion
All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
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Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
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Distance God Him Hostile Let Live Man Neutral Remain Universe
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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Always Each Individual Live Sanctify
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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Centre Create Dissociate Gradual Humanity Most People Person Primitae State Survive Work
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Being Experience Human Spiritual
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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All Battle Day Deed Great Live Power Spend Us Wait