Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

  • It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.