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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1881
Born: May 1
Died: 1955
Died: April 10
Catholic Priest
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P. Teilhard de Chardin
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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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From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
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The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.
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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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Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.
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Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
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From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in a state of purity, but always more or less granulated (even in light) energy nowadays represents for science the most primitive form of universal stuff.
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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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Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
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Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: This is my Blood.
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The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
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We are collaborators in creation.
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That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.
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Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
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Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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Everything that rises must converge.
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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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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.
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Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God but everything is capable of becoming good.
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