The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will… — 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
How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music -… — 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
