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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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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
One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
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Close Coming Difficulty Eyes Less More Must One Recognize Short Upset
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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Disconcert Man Met Most Mysterious Object Point Positivist Purely Science View
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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Anyway Cold Go Have Matter Through Wade Warm Water
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Joint Know Observe Product Universe
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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Matter Neither Spirit Stuff Universe World
There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
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Concentrate Corruption Little Loss Purest Subsequent
For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
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Almost Chosen Course Disperse Earth Gradual Part Real Segregation Still Universe
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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Discover God History Man Second Shall Time
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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All Earth Extract Fundamental Give Himself Man Obligation Think
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
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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Can Greater Handle Importendence What World
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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Absolute Enter Entirely Fact Field Into Represent Singular Sole Something Thought Unique
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Country Not Pull Root Them Up
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
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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