Suffering Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“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

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin