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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

French Philosopher

Born: May 1, 1881

Died: Apr 10, 1955

God Love Man Me Universe World

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The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Day Great History World Impossible Matter First Breath Our One Day Mystery Through Animated Part Souls How Were Reflected Forever Cells Influences Decipher Which Us Successive Whole Each Each One Incorporated

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed it does. In the absence of any absolutely sensational discovery in prehistory, there is an up-to-date and scientific manner of understanding man, which is solidly based on palaeontology. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love Attitude Cause Christian Humane Society Neither Must Hopes Nor Forget May Human Mankind Us Organized

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

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. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love Heart Nothing Universe Marked Direct More More Or Less Trace Itself Than Subtleties Convergence Less Element

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Down Disposition Cosmos Primordial Substance Deep Deep Down

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

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

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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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

Me Christ Universe Earth Segregation Part Taking Almost Course Real Still Gradual Form Which Little Body Chosen Universally

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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