And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."Īs quoted by R. "One day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity" - after all the scientific and technological achievements - "we shall harness for God the energies of love.
It does not store any personal data."The Evolution of Chastity" (February 1934), as translated in Toward the Future (1975) edited by by René Hague, who also suggests "space" as an alternate translation of "the ether." The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (– April 10, 1955) was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest, a paleontologist and geologist Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. 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 fire.
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth. Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them… for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. 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 respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others. Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.