“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
My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Since once again, Lord - though this time not in the forests of the Aisne but in the steppes of Asia -… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will… — 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
The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the… — 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
“Blessed be you, universal matter, immeasurable time, boundless ether, triple abyss of stars and atoms and generations: you who by overflowing and… — 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
Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only… — 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
The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human--these are not thrown open to a few… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The past has revealed to me the structure of the future. — 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
To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot… — 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
“Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.… — 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
