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Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.
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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When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.
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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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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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Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
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Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
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Faith has need of the whole truth.
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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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You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
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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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Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
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The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.
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