The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
Pierre Teilhard De ChardinRead
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that being Catholic represents the complete expression of Christianity.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin argues that to fully embrace the Christian faith, one must do so through the Catholic tradition. This implies that the teachings, sacraments, and community aspects of Catholicism encapsulate the essence of what it means to be a follower of Christ, offering a pathway to deeper faith and understanding.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of community in faith, one might reference this quote to highlight the Catholic experience.
The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.
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.
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.
The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.
I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.
Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic.
Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into Godβs presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise.
The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.
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