Quotes about Convergence
Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
— Philip Yancey
We are driven, kicking and screaming, toward ever higher levels of union and ability to include (to forgive others for being "other"), it seems to me. "Everything that rises must converge," as Teilhard de Chardin put it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The very fact of our becoming aware of this profound ordering of things will enable human collectivization to pass beyond the enforced phase, where it now is, into the free phase: that in which (men having at last understood that they are inseparably joined elements of a converging Whole, and having learnt in consequence to love the preordained forces that unite them) a natural union of affinity and sympathy will supersede the forces of compulsion.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in it enters in diffrent places but it all becomes one.
— Teresa of Avila
For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.
— Clement of Alexandria
Imagine what would happen if the prayer movement and social justice movement converged, and we had Christians who prayed like they depend on God and lived like God depended on them? Hallelujah.
— Shane Claiborne
Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Matter and Spirit mirror one another and reveal the depths of one another.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I'm not ready to walk on water, but I'm also not ready to let the televangelists and prosperity preachers hijack the supernatural stuff from the rest of us. Imagine what would happen if the prayer movement and social justice movement converged, and we had Christians who prayed like they depend on God and lived like God depended on them?
— Shane Claiborne
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
— Ralph Waldo Emerson