In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
More from: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. -
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. -
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. -
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. -
A good husband makes a good wife.
More quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
- The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
- 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.