Pierre Teilhard de Chardin famous quotes

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Love #Uniting #Way

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Friendship #Funny Friend #Cute Best Friend

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 discovered fire.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Love #Inspirational #Life

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Love #Powerful #Energy

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Inspirational #Change #Forever

To love is to approach each other center to center.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Love #Love Is #Approach

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Unity #Splits #Matter

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 seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Moving #Reality #Serenity

At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Heart #Soul #Lord

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Goal #Enough #Should

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Believe #Hands #Giving

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Life #Spiritual #Positive Thinking

Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Ocean #Water #Venture

The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Passion #Soul #Way

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Long #World #Levels

The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Reflection #Thinking #Ideas

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Patience

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Life #Love Is #Truth Is

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Love #Together #Agents

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Spiritual #Human Experience #Humans

We are collaborators in creation.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Creation

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Heart #Paint #Brushes

Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Discovery #Together #Movement

Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Expression #Atoms #Energy

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Believe #Reality #Arms

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#People #Finals #Analysis

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#God #Faith #Peace

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Life #Love Is #Universal Love

Faith has need of the whole truth.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Needs

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Inspirational #Helping Others #Self

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Life #Water #Matter

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Christian #Believe #Long

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.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Perception #Ordinary Things #Life Is

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Dog #Pet #Doe

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Love #Spiritual #Pregnancy

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Science #Men #Mind

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Men #Essence #Age

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Moving #Ascent #Consciousness

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Inspirational #Success #Teamwork

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Virtue #Creation #Incarnation

Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Moving #Matter #Spirit

To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Writing #Clothes #Needs

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#Science #Common #Evolution