Occupation: Philosopher Birth: May 1, 1881 Death: April 10, 1955
Above all, trust in the slow work of God..
It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive..
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience..
The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres..
You must overcome death by finding God in it..
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of i….
More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas..
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others..
Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation..
That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another questio….
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it..
When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire..
Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possib….
Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every deat….
The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human - these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one c….
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..
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe..
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other..
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well ….
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action..
What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable ….