Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Quotes
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.
Love is a sacred reserve of energy it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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.
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.
We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.
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 damned
In these writings, and in all my teaching work, I continue to ask the question, “What about the children?
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
