Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces… — 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
If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
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
This it the greatest success I can dream of for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world. — 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
A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the… — 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 truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. — 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
I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along… — 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
All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of… — 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
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
“The quintessential good and beauty in life is what each has to offer to others valuing the gesture ourselves into confluence with… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world. — 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
