Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can change Franklin from a prodigal into a man of God, he can do it for anybody.

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

You're a song written by the hands of God.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

I know that I'm here because of the grace of God. But I also know that I've been given this second chance for a specific reason, and that is to bring love to the world again through the voice of my music, and I'm so honored to be able to do it. I'm so blessed that God has chosen me to do that.

I experience God as the power of love.

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.

But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Conscience is God present in man.

I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it's not my place to judge. I don't have that power. I don't want that power. It's my place to love and to show God's love to other people, even if they don't live a life like I live.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

God is simply love.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.