So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinScience, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinBy virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinOur duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin