Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Believe Quotations

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.