Quotes from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

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

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

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.

Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world - not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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