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Spirituality Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

12 Spirituality quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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If you’re drawn to the intersection of science and the sacred, this brief set of twelve verses from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin gives a taste of his unique perspective. Though modest in size, the collection captures the essence of his quest to reconcile evolution with the divine, making it a handy primer for anyone curious about his ideas.

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are are spiritual beings immersed in a spiritual experience”

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In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

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“We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.”

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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

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You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

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At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

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The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative…

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We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual…

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We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to…

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“Since once again, Lord - though this time not in the forests of the Aisne but in the steppes of Asia -…

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The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

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“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.”

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The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

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It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building…

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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

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When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.

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