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

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

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

You must overcome death by finding God in it.

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

To see more is to become more.

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

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.

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.

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

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

Isolation is a blind alley ... Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.

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

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

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

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

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

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

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

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

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

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

Faith has need of the whole truth.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think ... of any man as damned

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

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

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

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

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

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.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

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

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

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

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

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

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

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

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

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

At the heart of every being lies creation's dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

This it the greatest success I can dream of for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

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

To love is to approach each other center to center.

The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.

One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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.

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

Research is the highest form of adoration

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

The quintessential good and beauty in life is what each has to offer to others valuing the gesture ourselves into confluence with the Word of God.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.

God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God?

We are collaborators in creation.

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

In the end, only the truth will survive.

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

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.

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

In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

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

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.