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Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1881
Born: May 1
Died: 1955
Died: April 10
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Faith has need of the whole truth.
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There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.
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From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
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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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