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 ChardinFrom an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin