Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You must overcome death by finding God in it.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To see more is to become more.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

— 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

And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

— 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

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“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

“In the end, only the truth will survive.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Everything that rises must converge.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin