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