Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.”

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

“The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.”

“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”

“The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.”

“We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.”

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

“What is crucial is to realize that the Arrow of Evolution is not pointed at the individual, but at the collective.”

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

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

“Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.”

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

“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.”

“Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.”

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

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

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

“Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.”

“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.”

“The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biological evolution has been superseded by a evolution of consciousness.”