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From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
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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God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
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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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Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
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Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.
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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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The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
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We are collaborators in creation.
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When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.
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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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Faith has need of the whole truth.
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The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.
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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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