{"author":"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin","author_id":"Pierre+Teilhard+de+Chardin","total_quotes":46,"quotes":[{"text":"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.","author":"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin","tags":["god","joy"],"id":15663,"author_id":"Pierre+Teilhard+de+Chardin"},{"text":"In the end, only the truth will survive.","author":"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin","tags":["evolution","jesuit","paleontologist","philosopher","priest"],"id":17985,"author_id":"Pierre+Teilhard+de+Chardin"},{"text":"The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.","author":"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin","tags":["empowering","partner","relationships"],"id":18926,"author_id":"Pierre+Teilhard+de+Chardin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin","tags":["life"],"id":42154,"author_id":"Pierre+Teilhard+de+Chardin"},{"text":"God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.","author":"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin","tags":["god","integration","intimacy"],"id":42386,"author_id":"Pierre+Teilhard+de+Chardin"},{"text":"If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.","author":"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin","tags":["good","fear","truth "],"id":46029,"author_id":"Pierre+Teilhard+de+Chardin"},{"text":"We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.","author":"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin","tags":["body","exist","oneness","recreate","together","unity","we-are-one"],"id":52377,"author_id":"Pierre+Teilhard+de+Chardin"},{"text":"Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.","author":"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin","tags":["growth","matter","spirit"],"id":69567,"author_id":"Pierre+Teilhard+de+Chardin"},{"text":"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.","author":"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin","tags":["self","give","satisfying "],"id":76384,"author_id":"Pierre+Teilhard+de+Chardin"},{"text":"Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.","author":"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin","tags":["love","society","christian "],"id":91516,"author_id":"Pierre+Teilhard+de+Chardin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}