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
By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one. — 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
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
By the sole fact of his entering into 'Thought,' man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our… — 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
When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that 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 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
