Quotes from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

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

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

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

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.

Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day - and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.