The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are are spiritual beings immersed in a spiritual experience” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only… — 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
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words:… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond… — 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
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
