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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (June 16, 2014): Charity and Progress

Posted on June 16, 2014 by William Ockham

  “Christian detachment subsists wholly in this wider attitude of mind: but instead of “leaving behind” it leads on; instead of cutting off, it raises. It is no longer a breakaway but a way through; no longer a withdrawal but … Continue reading →

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (June 9, 1014): The Primacy of Charity

Posted on June 9, 2014 by William Ockham

  “What the modern mind finds disconcerting in Christian charity is its negative or at least static aspect, and also the “detached” quality of this great virtue. “Love one another …” Hitherto the gospel precept has seemed simply to mean, … Continue reading →

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (June 2, 1014): The Primacy of Christ and His Relationship to the Cosmos

Posted on June 2, 2014 by William Ockham

  “In the narrow, partitioned and static Cosmos wherein our fathers believed themselves to dwell, Christ was “lived” and loved by His followers, as He is today, as the Being on whom all things depend and in whom the Universe … Continue reading →

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (May 26, 2014): Matter and Spirit; Christ and Charity

Posted on May 26, 2014 by William Ockham

  “What is finally the most revolutionary and fruitful aspect of our present age is the relationship it has brought to light between Matter and Spirit: spirit being no longer independent of matter, or in opposition to it, but laboriously … Continue reading →

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (May 19, 2014): Relevance of Christianity

Posted on May 19, 2014 by William Ockham

“As recently as yesterday Christianity represented the highest  point attained by the consciousness of Mankind in its striving to humanize itself. But does it still hold this position, or at the best can it continue to hold it for long? … Continue reading →

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (May 12, 2014): Freedom of Christianity

Posted on May 12, 2014 by William Ockham

“Christianity is not, as it is sometimes presented and sometimes practiced, an additional burden of observances and obligations to weigh down and increase the already heavy load, or to multiply the already paralyzing ties of our life in society. It … Continue reading →

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (May 5, 2014): Developing Noosphere

Posted on May 5, 2014 by William Ockham

“From the first beginnings of History (sic) . . . this principle of the compressive generation of consciousness has been ceaselessly at work in the human mass. But from the moment — we have just reached it! — when the … Continue reading →

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (April 28, 2014): A God Proportionate to our Understanding of the Universe

Posted on April 28, 2014 by William Ockham

  “The human world of today has not grown cold, but . . . it is ardently searching for a God proportionate to the new dimensions of a Universe whose appearance has completely revolutionized the scale of our faculty of worship. … Continue reading →

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (April 21, 2014): The Parousia and the Omega Point

Posted on April 21, 2014 by William Ockham

  “Christian faith . . . by the very fact that it is rooted in the idea of the Incarnation, has always based a large part of its tenants on the tangible values of the World and of Matter . . … Continue reading →

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (April 14, 2014): Easter Sunday

Posted on April 14, 2014 by William Ockham

“O God, if in my life I have not been wrong, allow me to die on Easter Sunday”. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin died of a heart attack on April 10, 1955: Easter Sunday

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