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Peace cannot mean anything but a HIGHER PROCESS OF CONQUEST. ... The world is bound to belong to its most active elements.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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)

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