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" Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself. "

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" In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way. "

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God

Way

World

" However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.' "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Childhood

" For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Universe

Earth

" We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Sad

Truth

Always

" The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Character

Universe

Stars

" The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Creative

Evil

Power

" I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant 'centers of resort': the soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers - extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Fragrance

Paradise

Flowers

" Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Theory

Evolution

True

" It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Men

Men And Women

Duty

" Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love

Guidance

Surrender

" To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Only

Being

Catholic

" Being happy is a matter of personal taste. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Being Happy

Personal

Matter

" Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God

Spiritual

New

" For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God

Action

" I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Thoughts

Man

Earth

" 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. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Time

Fire

Love

" The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Know

Transformation

World

" Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love

Fact

World

" Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Live

Success

Believe

" The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Greatness

Passion

Unity

" Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

See

Life

" Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God

Earth

Religion

" To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Process

Force

Evolution

" Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other's encroachments. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Society

Intelligent

Need

" For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Many

Die

Ideas

" Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Hands

God

Become

" I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Myself

Science

Look

" It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man

Place

History

" Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Union

Passage

Death

" Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Deepest

Way

Love