Top 90 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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3. “Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

4. “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

5. “Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

6. “Above all, trust in the slow work of God.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

7. “Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

8. “Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

9. “Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

11. “Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

12. “Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

13. “Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

14. “Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

15. “We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

16. “There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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18. “We are collaborators in creation.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

21. “The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

22. “Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

23. “Everything that rises must converge.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

24. “The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

27. “The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

28. “When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

29. “Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

30. “Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

32. “To see more is to become more.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

34. “What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

35. “The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

36. “Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

37. “The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

39. “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

40. “By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

41. “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.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

42. “A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

43. “The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

44. “The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

45. “The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

46. “Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

47. “The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

48. “The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

49. “Faith has need of the whole truth.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

50. “Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin