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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
The Divine Milieu (1960)
A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them.
At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.
The Divine Milieu (1960)
All the communions of a life-time are one communion.
All the communions of all men now living are one communion.
All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.
The Divine Milieu (1960)
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
The Evolution of Chastity (1934)
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world; the stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could produce the human molecule.
A Sketch of a Personalistic Universe (1936)
By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here is profane for those who know how to see.
The Divine Milieu (1960)
Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation
Man's Place in Nature (1966)
Through the incarnation God descended into nature in order to super-animate and take it back to him.
Mysticism of Science (1939)
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.
The Divine Milieu (1960)
The feminine is the most formidable of the forces of matter.
The Evolution of Chastity (1934)
We are like soldiers who fall during the assault which leads to peace.
The Divine Milieu (1960)
The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
A Sketch of a Personalistic Universe (1936)
Science will, in all probability, be increasingly impregnated by mysticism.
My Universe (1924)
Christ has a cosmic body that extends throughout the universe.
The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
Personally, I stick to my idea that we are watching the birth, more than the death, of a World.
"The more dangerous a thing, the more is its conquest ordained by life": it is from that conviction that the modern world has emerged; and from that our religion, too, must be reborn.
The Evolution of Chastity (1934)