Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ Quotes

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“it is matter carried beyond itself – it is super-material.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“As usual when elites try to suppress thought it becomes more attractive and accessible”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“using the words evolution and Christ in the same sentence was as anathema to the Vatican in the 1940s as it is to Evangelical Protestants today.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“He thought that he was a small scale version of John the Baptist – one who presages what is to come. He was right in that regard.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“Christ, as the Incarnation of God, is in matter, life and energy. This of course goes far beyond the traditional Catholic teachings, but in no way contradicts them. Nonetheless it was just too much for the leaders of the Church to embrace at that time.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“All of this enhanced his reputation as a scholar, a theologian and mystic. He became a celebrity. This led to a group of French bishops complaining to the Holy Office. He was in effect fired from the Institut Catholique and would never teach there again.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“and this is my favourite quote, “A pilgrim of the future on my way back from a journey made entirely in the past.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“Teilhard wrote, “The true struggle we are witnessing is not between believers and non-believers, but between two sorts of believers. Two ideals, two conceptions of the Divine are confronting one another….A religion of the earth is being mobilized against religion of heaven.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything to ever prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“Abstract theology, sacramentalism whose standard was quantity not quality and over-refined piety. The guidance provided by clergy to the flock is being confined to a little artificial world of ritualism, of religious practices and pious extravaganzas, which is completely cut off from the true current of reality.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“Paul”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ