Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

When you pass from death into the life, you become a new person, and so everything you do flows from that.

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.