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Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
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
You must overcome death by finding God in it.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
To see more is to become more.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Isolation is a blind alley ... Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Joy is the sheer evidence of God.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Faith has need of the whole truth.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
— 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 is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Humankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalization.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.
— 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 current toward the open seas.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself
— 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 the sun.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
At the heart of every being lies creation's dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
To love is to approach each other center to center.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Research is the highest form of adoration
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The quintessential good and beauty in life is what each has to offer to others valuing the gesture ourselves into confluence with the Word of God.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God?
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
We are collaborators in creation.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
In the end, only the truth will survive.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
— 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
I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
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
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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
The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin