Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops an...

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the e...

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the obje...

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredn...

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one a...

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friends...

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewin...

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the...

We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn ...

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society mus...

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. Bu...

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile o...

In the end, only the truth will survive.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into ...

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of th...

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of th...

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense ful...

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil...

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it...

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher posses...

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our scie...

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be t...

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which ...

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains un...

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experi...

It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immedi...

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compare...

Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by co...

So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the le...

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives ...

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature...

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it the Christian in order ...

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damn...

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do...

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinion...

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.