Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - The divine milieu

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A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here is profane for those who know how to see.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately must we believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We are like soldiers who fall during the assault which leads to peace.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
All the communions of a life-time are one communion.
All the communions of all men now living are one communion.
All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".

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Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin