Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Everything that rises must converge.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. 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.

We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.

" We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience".

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of Love, and then, for the second time in history of the world, man will discover fire."

"The day will come when we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, the human being will have discovered fire."

 "Someday, after we have mastered to winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness. . . the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."                                       - 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