More quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value."
"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."
"Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution."
"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."
"It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway."