The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Friendship
Christ has a cosmic body that extends throughout the universe.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Religion
The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Future
Science will, in all probability, be increasingly impregnated by mysticism.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Science
The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Philosophy
Through the incarnation God descended into nature in order to super-animate and take it back to him.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Religion
We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet as a whole.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Change
I can truly say — and this in virtue of the whole structure of my thought — that I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Christ of the Gospel than ever before in my life. Never has Christ seemed to me more real, more personal or more immense.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Religion
Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Society