It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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About Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. was a French Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, philosopher, mystic and teacher. He investigated the theory of evolution from a perspective influenced by Henri Bergson and Christian mysticism, writing multiple scientific and religious works on the subject. His mainstream scientific achievements include his paleontological research in China, taking part in the discovery of the significant Peking Man fossils from the Zhoukoudian cave complex near Beijing.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Pierre Teilhard de ChardinOur duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered …
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered …
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered …
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will resp…
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered …
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.