The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
Pierre Teilhard De ChardinRead
The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day - and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that modern Christianity, particularly in its Catholic form, fosters a unique sense of unity and warmth among its followers.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin highlights that contemporary Christianity stands out for its ability to cultivate a strong sense of community and connection among believers. He suggests that this dynamic is unmatched by any other religious faith throughout history, asserting that the more inclusive and Catholic the faith, the greater its capacity for fostering unity and warmth among its adherents.
In practice
This quote can be used in a church sermon to inspire a sense of community among congregants.
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.
Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.
We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.
The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.
Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.
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