The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin” — 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
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.… — 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
The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it… — 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
