God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God? — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
At the heart of every being lies creation's dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing)… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Since once again, Lord - though this time not in the forests of the Aisne but in the steppes of Asia -… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Blessed be you, universal matter, immeasurable time, boundless ether, triple abyss of stars and atoms and generations: you who by overflowing and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
