Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINNeither 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.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
-
-
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
The soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers – extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
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 -
It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN