Quotes from 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.

You must overcome death by finding God in it.

At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

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

The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.