A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth Quotes

“when so many good meaning friends were pressing on him to leave his order, he forthrightly refused.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“the greatest test of truth is coherence and fruitfulness.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Teilhard de Chardin saw each person who stood before him as the Body of Christ and the Temple of the Holy Spirit, together they formed the mystical body,”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“fundamental spiritual importance of an effort to reach consciousness; for consciousness is the sap of the tree of life, and of that tree our own privileged species is the topmost bough.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“the literal written word of scripture became the moral code for all Protestants.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“spirit is matter seen from within; matter is spirit seen from without. Matter and spirit act together as one thing. Matter participates in God’s self-manifestation.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“unified Being, God, where all will be one.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“God made him little less than GOD.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Such as”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“anthropoid”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“a church with an interest in quantity and not quality is out of touch with authenticity”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Astronomers discovered two new planets.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“In this seventh year of the Twenty First Century,”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“the whole of faith is a question put by man and answered by God, at least so far as man understands it.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The message that Teilhard de Chardin is conveying to us here”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“In science beauty “occurs” when one sees an immensity of data coming together in the unity of a simple theory.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“resulting in a deep depression. (this was a disposition to which he was prone all his life.)”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“While their love for each other was very deep and passionate, they differed in their understanding of love. Lucile expected and sought an erotic love, while Teilhard de Chardin’s love was an agape love.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“no matter how deep and all- consuming two people may show love for one another, their union is only complete above and beyond themselves and in non-possessiveness. Natural love for the Christian must lead to mystical love. In other words love must point from the present time to the beyond, to the Omega.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“race,”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“weaver”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Where the lamb represents the Divine in the human being, and the lion represents the savage in the same human being.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“ultra-human”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“union, which generates love, but on identification, which excludes love.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“the Pope,”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Islam offers itself today as a principle of fixation and stagnation.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“total anarchy, the source and the sign of universal death,”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“panentheism. A theory whereby God while distinct from his creatures is present in all.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Omega – meaning the end – Teilhard de Chardin sees this as the ending of space and time, when all will be enveloped in Christ. Or to put it another way when the whole universe will merge in oneness in Christ.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“This aversion ceases as soon as we find a way to bring this other into our unity.”
― Ellen Galvin, A Mystic in Search of a Unifying Truth : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin