Pierre Teilhard De Chardin said this quote

“ If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction. ”

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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin