The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from… — 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
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
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
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
Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
“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 Image
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
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 Image
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
