Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
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The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
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Is evolution a theory, a system or a hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.
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I can truly say - and this in virtue of the whole structure of my thought - that I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Christ of the Gospel than ever before in my life. Never has Christ seemed to me more real, more personal or more immense.
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We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet as a whole.
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Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.
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The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
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In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.
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Through the incarnation God descended into nature in order to super-animate and take it back to him.
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All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.
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Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation
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We are like soldiers who fall during the assault which leads to peace.
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Christ has a cosmic body that extends throughout the universe.
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As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the 'human religious ideal' inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the 'christian religious ideal'.
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Science will, in all probability, be increasingly impregnated by mysticism.
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At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.
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A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
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God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.
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By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here is profane for those who know how to see.
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If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form. . . . Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.