Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovere...”

“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.”

“He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.”

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”

“Above all, trust in the slow work of God.”

“It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.”

“Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stages.We are impatient of being on th...”

“So many things which once had distressed or revolted him the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move all s...”

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

“I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.”

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

“In these writings, and in all my teaching work, I continue to ask the question, What about the children?”

“The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.”

“The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universeeven a positivist oneremains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter....”

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

“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has...”

“Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit...”

“Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress...”

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