Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Quotes
May 1, 1881 – 10 April 1955
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The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, humanity will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— As quoted in Fire of Love : Encountering the Holy Spirit (2006) by Donald Goergen, p. 92
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— As quoted in Read for the Cure (2007) by Eileen Fanning, p. v
We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet as a whole.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— The Heart of Matter (1950)
I can truly say — and this in virtue of the whole structure of my thought — that I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Christ of the Gospel than ever before in my life. Never has Christ seemed to me more real, more personal or more immense.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— Letter from Cape Town to Father General, Jean-Baptiste Janssens (12 October 1951)
The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— A Sketch of a Personalistic Universe.
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— Preface, p. 43
At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 56
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 63
By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here is profane for those who know how to see.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 66
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 72
We are like soldiers who fall during the assault which leads to peace.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 85
In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— On Christian Asceticism, p. 100
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.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— The Divine Milieu, p. 124
The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin— Epilogue, In Expectation of the Parousia, p. 154
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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— As translated in The The Ignatian Tradition (2009) edited by Kevin F. Burke, Eileen Burke-Sullivan and Phyllis Zagano, p. 86
