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Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

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
Geologist
Paleoanthropologist
Paleontologist
Philosopher
Scientific Collector
Theology
Writer
P. Teilhard de Chardin
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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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The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human - these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth.
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We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.
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The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
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