Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes: 11

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

• 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.

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

• The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

• Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

• Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

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

• The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

• You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

• The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.

  The Phenomenon of Man

• 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.

  Hymn of the Universe