Pierre Teilhard De Chardin: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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.”

“In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.”

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

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

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here is profane for those who know how to see.”

“The whole life lies in the verb seeing.”

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

“The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Research is the highest form of adoration”

“Christ has a cosmic body that extends throughout the universe.”

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

“Through the incarnation God descended into nature in order to super-animate and take it back to him.”

“In its most general form and from the point of view of physics, love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world, centre to centre. This is how it has been understood by the great philosophers from Plato, the poet, to Nicolas of Cusa and other representatives of frigid scholasticism. Once this definition has been accepted, it gives rise to a series of important consequences. Love is power of producing inter-centric relationship. It is present, therefore (at least in a rudimentary state), in all the natural centres, living and pre-living, which make up the world; and it represents, too, the most profound, most direct, and most creative form of inter-action that it is possible to conceive between those centres. Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.”