Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

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

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

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

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.