The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. - 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
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Above all, trust in the slow work of God. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. - 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 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In the end, only the truth will survive. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin