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 Read Quote
How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
