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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (September 9, 2013): Transfigure the World

“Lord, may the might of your invincible hands direct and transfigure for the great world you have in mind that earthly travail which I have gathered into my heart and now offer you in its entirety. Remold it, rectify it, recast … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (September 2, 2013): Depths of God

“Lord, I know we cannot forestall, still less dictate to  you, even the smallest of your actions; from you alone comes all initiative—and this applies in the first place to my prayer. Radiant Word, blazing Power, you who mold the manifold so … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (August 26, 2013): Calling Down Fire

“Because, my God, though I lack the soul-zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an, overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (August 19, 2013)

“Christian faith is not fatal either to the rational method of conquering the world or to man’s confidence in himself (on the contrary, it stimulates and inspires them).  But, in conformity with the law of the integration of the natural … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (August 12, 2013): In the beginning . . . )

“In the beginning was Power, intelligent, loving, energizing. In the beginning was the Word, supremely capable of mastering and molding whatever might come into being in the world of matter. In the beginning there were not coldness and darkness; there was Fire. This is the truth. … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (August 5, 2013): Mass on the World

“Since once again, Lord — though this time not in the forests of the Aisne but in the steppes of Asia — I have neither bread, nor wine, nor altar, I will raise myself beyond these symbols, up to the … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (July 29, 2013): God as Poet

“From beneath the most secular experience of love (provided it be deep), from beneath the most coldly reasoned construction of the universe (provided it seek to embrace the whole of the real) there always shines through some divine emotion, and … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (July 22, 2013)

“To become unified and concentrated upon itself, the being must break many sensible attachments.  To make itself one with others and give itself to them, it must encroach upon those intimate personal intellectual and emotional reserves that it most jealously … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (July 15, 2013): Collective Consciousness and the Consummated Christ

“Without biological evolution which produced the brain, there would be no sanctified souls; similarly, without the evolution of collective thought which alone can realize on earth the fullness of human consciousness, could there be a consummated Christ?” — Pierre Teilhard … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (July 8, 2013): God is a Choice

“God is a choice; a very simple choice; the choice between a Yes and a No, between the sign + and the sign -.  None of us can avoid making this choice, and it is extremely difficult to make the … Continue reading

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