Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes & Sayings

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

“It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.”

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

“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”

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