Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Quotes

You must overcome death by finding God in it.

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

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

God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

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.

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.

Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.

Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God?

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.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

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

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

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

In these writings, and in all my teaching work, I continue to ask the question, “What about the children?

In the end, only the truth will survive.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

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.

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