Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

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

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

For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

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

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

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

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

...The very fact of our becoming aware of this profound ordering of things will enable human collectivization to pass beyond the enforced phase, where it now is, into the free phase: that in which (men having at last understood that they are inseparably joined elements of a converging Whole, and having learnt in consequence to love the preordained forces that unite them) a natural union of affinity and sympathy will supersede the forces of compulsion.

We are spiritual beings, having a human experience.

in the course of the growth of research; so that, when they reach the end of their analyses they cannot tell with any certainty whether the structure they have reached is the essence of the matter they are studying, or the reflection of their own thought.

Christ has a cosmic body that extends throughout the universe.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

In no case does the energy required for synthesis appear to be provided by an influx of fresh capital, but by expenditure.

Rien ne vaut la peine d'être trouvé que ce qui n'a jamais existé encore.