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
Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God? — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world… — 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
Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade… — 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
In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way. — 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
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
No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world. — 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 world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres. — 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
It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops:… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.… — 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
