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God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

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Caves are the privileged homes of the documents of prehistory.

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Christ has a cosmic body that extends throughout the universe.

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At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

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We are like soldiers who fall during the assault which leads to peace.

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Science will, in all probability, be increasingly impregnated by mysticism.

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From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

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The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

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It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

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Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

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More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

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Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.

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The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

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Through the incarnation God descended into nature in order to super-animate and take it back to him.

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Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

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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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The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

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A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

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By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here is profane for those who know how to see.

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The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

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Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

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A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

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Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

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Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation

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The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

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Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.

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Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

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In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

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That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

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