251 Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin



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    Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

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    In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

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    That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

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    The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

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