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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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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of complexification.
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The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
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Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
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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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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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The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
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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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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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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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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
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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 future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.
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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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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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